High Country History Group
Welcome to the blog of the High Country History Group covering the parishes of Greensted, Stanford Rivers, Stapleford Tawney and Theydon Mount in Essex, England. We meet most fourth Thursdays in the month at Toot Hill Village Hall from 8.00pm.
Programme
Friday 30 June 2023
William Byrd @ Stondon: This Evening. Our Special Talk to commemorate Byrd
Friday 3 March 2023
William Byrd @ Stondon: 'The Life and Times of William Byrd: A Local Histo...
Saturday 18 February 2023
Tuesday 31 January 2023
2023 Programme
Our 2023 programme:
23 Feb: '1926' - our speaker is our Chairman, Martyn Lockwood
23 Mar: Annual General Meeting
27 Apr: 'John Ray' - Jennifer Rowland
25 May: Napoleonic Invasion Plans - Neil Wiffen
22 Jun: 'Jersey under the Jackboot: the occupation of Jersey during WW2' - Patrick Griggs
27 Jul: 'The Life and Times of William Byrd (c1540-1623): A Local History' - Andrew Smith
26 Oct: 'The Prison at Hill Hall' - Anne Padfield
23 Nov: Pre-Christmas meeting. Talk to be confirmed.
Admission: Members £1, Non-members £5
Annual Membership: £15 (Family: £30)
Saturday 5 November 2022
High Country History Group
We have been back in our usual meeting place for just over a year following the pandemic. Our 2023 programme will be posted here soon.
Wednesday 22 July 2020
Lockdown Easing but Still on Zoom
Sunday 24 May 2020
High Country History Group on Zoom
Friday 20 March 2020
High Country History Group. Meetings Suspended Until Further Notice
Sunday 12 January 2020
High Country History Group Programme 2020
Date
|
Topic
|
Speaker
|
27
February
|
Tudor
Education in Essex
|
Tony
Tuckwell
|
26
March
|
Annual
General Meeting
|
Committee
|
23 April
|
The Inns of
Court
|
Rosemary
Tiffen
|
28
May
|
The Plant
Hunters
|
Maggie Piper
|
25
June
|
The Home
Guard
|
Neil Wiffen
|
23
July
|
Life and
Death in
the Workhouse
|
Dr. Mark
Carroll
|
22
October
|
William
Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement.
|
Mark Lewis
|
26
November
|
Sunday 24 March 2019
Blackmore Area Local History: Ancestry DNA
Saturday 23 February 2019
High Country History Group Programme 2019
Our programme for 2019 is as follows
Date
|
Topic
|
Speaker
|
28
February
|
Postcards
from the Front 1914-1919
|
Kate Cole.
|
28
March
|
Annual
General Meeting. ‘Empire Under Revolt’. Amateur film shot by ‘Captain Ronald Reed
in India, 1930-1932’ deposited at the Imperial War Museum
|
Andrew Smith
|
25 April
|
‘Tower of
London and its prisoners.’
|
Brian Darcy
|
23
May
|
The Princess
Alice Disaster 1878
|
Martyn
Lockwood
|
27
June
|
The Darcy
Spice Apple
|
Neil Wiffen
|
25
July
|
The National
Memorial Arboretum
|
Maggie Piper
|
24
October
|
Talk to be
announced
|
Anne
Padfield
|
28
November
|
Blackmore Anniversaries
|
Andrew Smith
|
Friday 9 November 2018
Blackmore Area Local History: Blackmore. Remembrance 100. 'For King and Country:...
Saturday 27 October 2018
'We Will Remember'. Thursday 22 November 2018
Saturday 20 October 2018
More Essex Churches. 'Then and Now'. 25 October 2018
We have a home-grown speaker this time. Andrew Smith, Secretary in his role as Hon Archivist of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History has been delving again into two volumes of Victorian Essex churches photographs to present a second instalment of 'Essex Churches Then and Now. Part of a potential trilogy.