Forthcoming Talks

2025

TUESDAY December 9th 7.30pm (with wine ) Jennifer Parker  is now Assistant Curator Bath Museum of Fashion will speak on “Fashion “. Jennifer  previously curated several celebrated exhibitons at Stourhead. Assistant curator Bath Fashion Museum.

MONDAY December 15th 10.30am Christopher Forester , Curator of Wincanton Museum  ” Be sober be vigilant ” a history of the mounted branch of the Metropolitan Police.“ 

2026

TUESDAY January 6th 7.30pm Glyn Coy from Hidden Wiltshire “Finding History in the Landscape”

MONDAY January 26th 10.30am Rose Heesom Honorary Curator  “Mere Museum”

TUESDAY February 10th 7.30pm Professor Emeritus Tom James of the University of Winchester ” The long and distinguished history of Clarendon Palace” , now a ruin near Salisbury.

MONDAY 23rd February 10.30am Nick Russell “How photography and cinematography were almost invented in Bath”

TUESDAY 10th March 7.30pm Nicola Turner-Inman Curator of Decorative Arts at the Royal Collection Trust. Topic to be confirmed.

TUESDAY  7th April 7.30pm with free glass of wine, our AGM followed by Kate Symonds on “Mere in the time of Elisabeth 1”. Kate has recently researched the Parish records.

TUESDAY 8th September 7.30pm  Dr James Taylor FRSA
” Captain Robert Fitzroy, Charles Darwin and the voyage of HMS Beagle ” . 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the first voyage.