Here you will find our current programme and our programmes for the previous two years. Details of forthcoming talks are in our Events section. Where there is a report of a past talk, a link will take you to the report. Anyone wishing to have contact details for speakers, or reports of earlier talks, should contact us.
2022 talks
10 January: Peter Lansdown. The Mary Rose: a sailor’s perspective
7 February: Andrew Powell-Thomas. The West Country’s last line of defence: the Taunton Stop Line
7 March: John Cooper. Isambard Kingdom Brunel: I alone am hung in chains
4 April: Joseph Lewis. Finding the Barwick follies
9 May: Brian Wright. The story of the Green Man carvings
6 June: Andrew Knight. Morris dancing
5 September: Mary Chisholm. Graffiti at Montacute
3 October: Janet Seaton & Barry Winetrobe. The Stuckeys and Stuckey’s Bank (followed by AGM)
2021 talks
4 October: AGM, followed by An evening with Eliza Bagehot
1 November: Janet Seaton & Barry Winetrobe. Famous Langportians
2020 talks
6 January: Peter Stanier. Outside the garden: archaeology around Stourhead
3 February: Sonja Rogers. The National Trust collections in their Somerset houses
2 March: Phil Nichols. Secure the shadow: Somerset photographers 1839-1939
6 April: John Cooper. Isambard Kingdom Brunel: I alone am hung in chains (cancelled)
4 May: Brian Wright. The story of the Green Man carvings (cancelled)
1 June: Peter Lansdown. The Mary Rose: a sailor’s perspective (cancelled)
7 September: John Smith. The Battle of Britain over Somerset (cancelled)
5 October: Janet Seaton & Barry Winetrobe. The Stuckeys and Stuckey’s Bank (followed by AGM) (cancelled)
2 November: Peter Davey. Trams of Taunton and Weston-super-Mare (cancelled)
2019 talks
7 January: Peter Stanier. Ham Hill: England’s most seductive stone
4 February: Peter Lander. The Birnbeck Regeneration Trust
4 March: Philip Unwin. The incredible journey (SS Great Britain)
1 April: Jeremy Michell. The Franklin 1845 NW Passage expedition
13 May: Rob Curtis. Thomas Hardy: a literary life
3 June: Liz Grant. Tales from the Quarter Sessions: Somerset’s criminal past
2 September: Barry Winetrobe & Janet Seaton. The Top Job: delving into Prime Ministerial History
7 October: Janet Seaton. Town Criers (followed by the AGM)
4 November: Stephen Honey. Muchelney Abbey: origins to dissolution