Spring Brochure 2024

Barlow family - Talk
Women at the Olympics - the
fight for equality - Talk
Museum Talks
Tue 16 th Jan
12.30pm | Free
When the father and sole breadwinner of a local
upper middle-class family dies, they find not only
the need to trim down their standard of living, but
for also some of the family at least to find gainful
employment. Moving initially to Bishops Stortford,
four of the family ultimately secured work as
artists for the Doulton Lambeth potteries.
Tue 20 th Feb
12.30pm | Free
An Olympiad with females would be impractical,
uninteresting, unesthetic and improper.”
Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern
Olympics, 1890.
It took women nearly a century to achieve near
equality, fighting ignorance and prejudice all the
way.
From the Neolithic to the Second World
War: some geophysical survey highlights.
Tue 19 th Mar
12.30pm | Free
The Community Archaeology Geophysics Group
has surveyed over 50 sites in the 11 years since
it was founded. This talk will briefly introduce the
methods we use, and then show the results from
a variety of sites across SE England. The sites
include everything from a Neolithic long barrow to
a Second World War air raid shelter.
110 years of Aviation History in
Hertfordshire
Tue 16 th Apr
12.30pm | Free
Guy has a lifelong interest in Aviation Heritage and
has written and published several aeronautical
drawings and articles. He has recently developed
an ‘Aviation & Auto Heritage’ website and as a
Tour Guide with the RAF Museum, he has been
researching the history of London Colney Airfield
and the various squadrons that operated from
the site.
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