Seasons 2021-2
Reports on the season 2019-21 are here.All meetings from March 2020 until January 2021 were cancelled. Meetings resumed using Zoom
from February to May 2021. The January and February 2022 meetings were also cancelled.
Our September meeting was postponed as it is unsuitable for Zoom and we could not offer enough seating in the Ashcroft centre. The good news is that it may be fitted in later. We were back in the Ashcroft Centre from October 2021 meetings. If you think you may have COVID symptoms, please do not attend. All face to face meetings are free to members. Non-members are welcome for a small charge of £3. Those in full time education may attend for free. Wednesday 27 October 2021 Educating Ciren Pamela Morris Since retiring from her career in education, Pam has been researching aspects of the town’s educational history for the Victoria County History, due for publication shortly. She will be talking about some typical developments and others that are unique to Cirencester. Wednesday 24th November 2021John Bellamy (1808-93) A Gloucestershire travelling showman
Dr Steven Blake FSA Dr Steven Blake was Museum & Collections Manager at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum before retiring. He is a founder member and former Chairman of the Cheltenham Local History Society and is currently Chair of the Gloucestershire Local History Association. Wednesday 26th January 2022 From Gaulish kiln to Corinium ditch Cancelled due to hall restrictions MONDAY 21st February 2022 This meeting was cancelled The Annual Croome Lecture - A joint meeting with Cirencester Civic SocietySpokes in a Wheel: Roads and Turnpikes around Cirencester
David Viner David is a former Chairman of the Society, currently Editor and Archivist. He will recall the Society’s Turnpikes Project of the 1980s/90s and its fieldwork recording local milestones and routes. The network of Turnpike Trusts, creating a Cirencester ‘hub,’ will be described and its modern legacy illustrated. His talk is based on his Presidential Address to Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society in 2020. Unfortunately the text is not available online. Wednesday 23rd March 2022 The Arts and Crafts Movement in the south Cotswolds Mary Greensted Mary has published and lectured widely on the subject of the Arts and Crafts movement. She was chairman of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen from 2009-18 and is a trustee of Court Barn, Chipping Campden. Her talk will provide an introduction to the designer-makers working in the area from the 1890s. Wednesday 13th April 2022 Joint meeting with Cirencester Science and Technology Society (face to face and also by Zoom)The Forensic Pathology of the Female Saxon Skull discovered in the River
Thames at Fairford in 2013
Linda Ainscough M.Sc. Ch.FA Senior Reporting Scientist,Anthropology Section, Cellmark Forensic Services (who analysed the Fairford skull back in 2013) Abingdon Laboratory Wednesday 25th May 2022 7.30pm Ashcroft Centre Annual General Meeting followed byThe First Ever Olimpick Games
Celia Haddon Celia is a CAHS member and a keen supporter of the Cotswold Olimpick Games. After retiring from full time journalism, she took second and Masters degrees in applied animal behaviour. In addition to 30 or so books, she has written for newspapers and magazines, appeared on TV and radio, and is as knowledgeable about cats as the Olimpicks. Saturday 11th June 2022 - ‘Soils, Snails and Stonehenge’ A day visit to Mike Allen and his environmental archaeology lab, followed by a guided walk along the Stonehenge Avenue.
Page last updated 27 April 2022
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Seasons 2021-2
Reports on the season 2019-21 are here.All meetings from March 2020 until January
2021 were cancelled. Meetings resumed
using Zoom from February to May 2021. The
January and February 2022 meetings were also
cancelled.
Our September meeting was postponed as it is unsuitable for Zoom and we could not offer enough seating in the Ashcroft centre. The good news is that it may be fitted in later. We were back in the Ashcroft Centre from October 2021 meetings. If you think you may have COVID symptoms, please do not attend. All face to face meetings are free to members. Non- members are welcome for a small charge of £3. Those in full time education may attend for free. Wednesday 27 October 2021 Educating Ciren Pamela Morris Since retiring from her career in education, Pam has been researching aspects of the town’s educational history for the Victoria County History, due for publication shortly. She will be talking about some typical developments and others that are unique to Cirencester. Wednesday 24th November 2021John Bellamy (1808-93) A
Gloucestershire travelling
showman
Dr Steven Blake FSA Dr Steven Blake was Museum & Collections Manager at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum before retiring. He is a founder member and former Chairman of the Cheltenham Local History Society and is currently Chair of the Gloucestershire Local History Association. Wednesday 26th January 2022 From Gaulish kiln to Corinium ditch Cancelled due to hall restrictions MONDAY 21st February 2022 This meeting was cancelled The Annual Croome Lecture - A joint meeting with Cirencester Civic SocietySpokes in a Wheel: Roads and
Turnpikes around Cirencester
David Viner David is a former Chairman of the Society, currently Editor and Archivist. He will recall the Society’s Turnpikes Project of the 1980s/90s and its fieldwork recording local milestones and routes. The network of Turnpike Trusts, creating a Cirencester ‘hub,’ will be described and its modern legacy illustrated. His talk is based on his Presidential Address to Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society in 2020. Unfortunately the text is not available online. Wednesday 23rd March 2022 The Arts and Crafts Movement in the south Cotswolds Mary Greensted Mary has published and lectured widely on the subject of the Arts and Crafts movement. She was chairman of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen from 2009-18 and is a trustee of Court Barn, Chipping Campden. Her talk will provide an introduction to the designer-makers working in the area from the 1890s. Wednesday 13th April 2022 Joint meeting with Cirencester Science and Technology Society (face to face and also by Zoom)The Forensic Pathology of the
Female Saxon Skull discovered
in the River Thames at Fairford
in 2013
Linda Ainscough M.Sc. Ch.FA Senior Reporting Scientist,Anthropology Section, Cellmark Forensic Services (who analysed the Fairford skull back in 2013) Abingdon Laboratory Wednesday 25th May 2022 7.30pm Ashcroft Centre Annual General Meeting followed byThe First Ever Olimpick Games
Celia Haddon Celia is a CAHS member and a keen supporter of the Cotswold Olimpick Games. After retiring from full time journalism, she took second and Masters degrees in applied animal behaviour. In addition to 30 or so books, she has written for newspapers and magazines, appeared on TV and radio, and is as knowledgeable about cats as the Olimpicks. Saturday 11th June 2022 - ‘Soils, Snails and Stonehenge’ A day visit to Mike Allen and his environmental archaeology lab, followed by a guided walk along the Stonehenge Avenue.
Page last updated 27 April 2022
