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THE RICHMOND LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY
Registered Charity No. 292907

Programme of lectures 2012-2013

This year the Society’s Lectures are being held in the Baptist Church, Duke Street, Richmond, beginning at 8pm, with coffee available from 7.30. Visitors are welcome: admission £1.

Monday 8 October
LIFE ON THE THAMES - NOW AND THEN
Bamber Gascoigne, broadcaster, author and a founding member of the RLHS

Monday 12 November
A MYSTERY REVEALED: THE GREAT WAR RECORD OF A RICHMOND SPORTS CLUB
Stephen Cooper, author of The Final Whistle: the Great War in Fifteen Players

Monday 10 December
SEARCHING FOR THE LOST PRINCE
Rab MacGibbon, Associate Curator, National Portrait Gallery, author of The Lost Prince: the Life and Death of Henry Stuart
Christmas Party follows

2013

Monday 14 January
THE CHURCHES OF SIR GEORGE GILBERT SCOTT
Geoff Brandwood, architectural historian and author, former Chairman of the Victorian Society

Monday 11 February
ISLEWORTH AND ST MARGARETS IN 1830 - A VIEW FROM THE THAMES
Andrea Cameron, Vice-President of the Isleworth Society

Monday 11 March
THE OLD DEER PARK - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF RICHMOND’S OTHER PARK
Paul Velluet, architect, former Chairman of the Richmond Society

Monday 15 April
WHO DO YOU THINK THEY WERE? DISCOVERING THE LIVES AND EXPERIENCES OF OUR ANCESTORS
Julian Pooley, Archivist in charge of Public Services, Surrey History Centre

Monday 20 May
Lecture to be announced. RLHS AGM precedes and Party follows