Date

Event

Speaker / Led By

Winter 2022/23
07 October 2022	How Psychology can give us insights into getting the best out of exploring archaeology and history	Katharine Thimbleby
04 November 2022	Visit to The Radio Museum, Watchet	Neil Wilson
03 December 2022	Eight Two Ringbolt – The Falklands 1982, 40 years On	Stephen Bartlett
06 January 2023	Members Evening East Coker Neast Greville Prideaux – diary Triangle Area, Middle Street	Martin Slazer Tina Rowe Theresa Taylor for Joseph Lewis
03 February 2023	Where’s The Glory? The Mourning Story	Graham Mottram
03 March 2023	Stalbridge Excavations Fourth Season	Chris Tripp
31 March 2023	Piers the Plowman – ‘commoners that be riche’	Brian & Moira Gittos
05 May 2023	AGM followed by The Medieval Parish Council in Somerset	Mary Chisholm

Summer 2022
15 June 2022	Wolfeton House, Charminster, Dorset	Katharine Thimbleby
10 July 2022	Langport Walkabout	Janet Seaton
06 August 2022	Visit Nether Adber (Deserted Village)	Stephen Bartlett
09 September 2022	Visit Somerset & Dorset Family History Society (SDFHS)	Dorothy Bower

Winter 2018/19
05 October 2018	Muchelney Abbey from its obscure origins, through the Norman Conquest to the Dissolution	John Baxter
02 November 2018	Talk on World War I about the local lads who went to war and the lasses role in the war	Darren Berry
07 December 2018	The Unfortunate Captain Pearce & the Wreck of the Holswel	Phillip Brown
04 January 2019	Members Evening – all welcome – With various talks, a quiz
01 February 2019	Roman History of Ilchester	John Smith
01 March 2019	Walter Bagehot – Langport’s Unknown Celebrity	Barry Winetrobe
05 April 2019	The Lost Islands of Somerset	Richard Brunning
03 May 2019	AGM followed by a talk – Parish Boundaries in and around Yeovil

Winter 2017/18
06 October 2017	Alberto Biolletti – A Soldier of Napoleon & Master Clockmaker of Wincanton	John Baxter
03 November 2017	Archaeology of Stone Quarrying	Peter Stanier
01 December 2017	Somerset’s Highway Heritage	Richard Raynsford
05 January 2018	Members Evening – all welcome – With a quiz, various talks
02 February 2018	South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project	Claire Pinder
02 March 2018	Meeting cancelled due to Weather
06 April 2018	Lidar – The Imaging of a Hidden Landscape	Bryan Moore
04 May 18	AGM followed by a talk – Brewing in Weymouth	Dr David Riches

Summer 2017
08 June 2017	Visit Castle Cary Horse Hair Museum	John Boyd Textiles
03 July 2017	Crewkerne Walkabout	Peter Wingrave
01 August 2017	Lufton Villa Excavations	James Gerrard/Newcastle University
05 September 2017	Visit Brympton d’Evercy House

Winter 2016/17
07 October 2016	A Petite Cloche, Grand Son	Brian and Moira Gittos
04 November 2016	The Postal System of Great Britain from Medieval Times until 1850	Roger Marsh
02 December 2016	Clark’s of Street: The Story of a Quaker Business	Tim Crumplin
06 January 2017	Members Evening various talks
03 February 2017	Bristol Blue Glass	Dr Francis Burroughes
03 March 2017	The History of Barrington Court	John Allen
07 April 2017	Writing Victoria History for Somerset	Mary Siraut
05 May 2017	AGM followed by a Magic Lantern Show	Humphrey Hamlin

Summer 2016
02 June 2016	Dawes Twineworks in West Coker	Ross Atkins
14 July 2016	Industrial Archaeology Sites around Crewkerne	Richard Simms
13 August 2016	Visit Down Farm Museum	Dr Martin Green
22 August 2016	Lufton Villa Excavations	James Gerrard
02 September 2016	Yeovil’s Parish Church (refurbished bells and clock)	Roger Fox

Winter 2015/16
09 October 2015	The Archaeology at Bunford Hollow	Stuart Milby
06 November 2015	Yeovil’s Gloving Legacy	Jean Harper
27 November 2015	A History of Milborne Port	Dr Lesley Wray
08 January 2016	Members Evening various talks
05 February 2016	The Unreturning Army	David Gordon
04 March 2016	Towards an Archaeology of the Anchorhold	Jerry Sampson
01 April 2016	The Air Defence of South-West England during World War Two	John Smith
06 May 2016	AGM followed by a talk – The Fovant Badges	Tony Phillips

Summer 2015
06 June 2015	Tintinhull Walkabout	Led by Denny Robins
16 July 2015	Evening Tour of Sherborne School	Led by Huw Ridgeway
14 August 2015	Bradford Abbas Walkabout	Led by Tony White
18 September 2015	Visit to CHAC	Clare Robinson & Joseph Lewis

Winter 2014/15
03 October 2014	Archaeology of Hinkley Point	Rachel Bellamy
07 November 2014	History of Yandles Timber Yard	David Mountstephens
05 December 2014	The Allens of Tintinhull – Wheelwrights, Farriers and Undertakers	John Allen
09 January 2015	Members Night (open to all) – Three short talks by members
06 February 2015	The Parrett Navigation Company	Francis Farr-Cox
06 March 2015	South Western Heritage Trust	Tom Maybury
10 April 2015	Monmouth Rebellion	John Allen
01 May 2015	AGM followed by a talk – Sherborne School	Huw Ridgeway

Summer 2014
13 June 2014	Montacute Walkabout and Village Church
11 July 2014	Visit to Barrow Clump Excavations (with SSARG)	Led by Richard Osgood
22 August 2014	Visit an Excavation on the Mod ranges at Lulworth	Led by Richard Osgood
22 August 2014	Visit Dawes Twine Works in West Coker
02 September 2014	Visit site of Yeovil’s Roman fort	Led by site Manager, Stuart Milby

Winter 2013/14
04 October 2013	Somerset Vernacular Buildings	Fergus Dowding
01 November 2013	Operation Nightingale	Richard Osgood MOD Archaeologist
06 December 2013	Village Schooling in Somerset	Sarah Villiers
03 January 2014	Members Night (open to all) – Three short talks by members
07 February 2014	The Railway Architecture of Yeovil	Brian Jackson
07 March 2014	Somerset’s Deserted Villages	James Bond
14 April 2014	Flax Milling	Tony Brook
02 May 2014	AGM followed by a talk – West Country Friendly Societies	Phillip Hoyland