List of Speakers : 2002 to date
2002 |
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April |
Ian Jubb |
Old Exeter Postcards |
June 13th |
Dick Passmore |
History Of Theatre Royal, Exeter |
August 8th |
Robert Crawley and Colin Shears |
History Of Exeter Transport |
October 10th |
Elayne Hoskin |
Old Exeter – SW Film &TV Archive |
December 12th |
Christine Trigger |
Exeter A – Z |
2003 |
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February 13th |
Todd Gray |
The Lost City Of Exeter |
April 10th |
Hazel Harvey |
Exeter Civic Society |
June 12th |
Prof. Holdsworth |
Quakers In Exeter & the S. West |
August 14th |
Alan & Elaine Dolley |
A Trip Along Exeter Canal |
October 9th |
Peter Faulkner |
The Aclands Of Killerton |
December 11th |
Royal Albert Memorial Museum |
Exeter Silver & Silversmiths |
2004 |
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February 12th |
Nigel Cheffers Heard |
The Exeter Roman Bath Trust |
April 8th |
David Clement |
Admiral Sir John Duckworth King |
June 8th |
Pat Salter |
Exeter Pubs In the Early 1800s |
August 8th |
Alan Masonowicz |
History Of Exwick Village |
October 14th |
Roger Thorne |
2½ Centuries Of Methodism In Exeter |
December 9th |
Stuart Raymond |
the Sources Of English Local History |
2005 |
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February 10th |
Prof Ivan Roots |
End Of the Civil War In Exeter |
April 14th |
Gordon Chapman |
Lost Cinemas In Devon |
June 9th |
Michael Portreath |
General Buller & the Boer War |
August 11th |
Kevin White |
Aspects Of Exeter |
October 13th |
Pongo Blanchford |
The New Trafalgar Way |
2006 |
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February 9th |
Canon Neil Collings |
Colourful Clergy Of Devon |
April 13th |
Martin Watts |
Exeter Watermills |
June 8th |
John Avery |
Cholera In Exeter |
August 10th |
Angela Sutton-Vane |
Exeter Police Force &Archives |
October 12th |
Dr Janet Cutler |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
2007 |
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February 8th |
Andrew Davey |
History Of Exeter Library Service |
April 12th |
Canon Ann Barwood |
The Exeter Riddles |
June 14th |
Geoffrey Harding |
Aspects Of Georgian Exeter |
August 9th |
Dr David Keep |
St Boniface |
October 11th |
Bob Alcock |
The Development of the Exeter University Campus |
2008 |
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February 14th |
Frank Gent |
Exeter Witchcraft Trials |
April 10th |
Christine Trigger |
Fred Karno |
June 12th |
Todd Gray |
Devon – the Slave Trade |
August 14th |
David Cornforth |
Film of the Blitz plus a walk along the leats |
October 9th |
Prof Robert Snodwen |
Restoration Of St Stephen’s Church |
2009 |
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February 12th |
Geoffrey Harding |
Exeter Almshouses |
April 9th |
Carol Mcfadzean |
Charlotte Treadwin & Devon Lace |
June 11th |
DeputyEditor, Express & Echo |
History Of Newspapers in Exeter |
October 8th |
Tim Jenkinson |
Milestones and Boundary Stones of Exeter |
2010 |
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February 10 |
AGM & Colin Laskey |
Exeter Scenes |
April 14 |
Geoffrey Harding |
The Templers of Exeter & Stover |
June 9 |
Felicity Harper |
Illustrated talk by Powderham Castle’s archivist |
August 11 |
Sadru Bhanji |
The French Prisoner of War Hospital at Countess Wear |
October 13 |
Dr Todd Gray |
New Research in Exeter’s History |
December 8 |
Christmas Party |
Quiz |
2011 |
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February 9 |
AGM |
A Member’s Research Project |
April 13 |
Richard Giles |
A Train to Exmouth, a journey of 150 years (to mark the 150thAnniversary of the Avocet Line) |
June 8 |
Anne Howard |
Using the resources of the Westcountry Studies Library for research projects |
August 10 |
Dr Peter Baker |
The Colletons of Exeter |
October 12 |
Gillian Allen |
The Davy family of Topsham and Jamaica |
December 14 |
Christmas Party |
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2012 |
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February 9 |
AGM |
Mini auction of books, prints etc. |
April 12 |
Richard Holladay |
History of Garton & King Ltd. |
June 14 |
Camilla Hampshire |
RAMM: Aspects of Exeter |
August 9 |
Mike Passmore |
Exminster’s Wartime Secret |
October 11 |
Prof. Ruth Hawker |
History of the Salvation Army in Exeter |
December 13 |
Dick Passmore |
Barnfield Theatre Myths & Legends |
2013 |
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February 12 |
AGM & |
Film of Exeter in the 1920s |
April 9 |
Capt Jack Nott |
Exeter Ship Canal |
June 11 |
Caradoc Doy |
The Veitch Family’s Influence |
August 13 |
Tony Lethbridge |
Exe Bridges Redevelopment 1968-72 |
October 8 |
John Allan |
Medieval Exeter |
December 10 |
Colin Laskey |
Postcards with a seasonal slant |
2014 |
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February 13th |
AGM |
None |
April 10 |
Colin Vosper |
History of the Harry Hems Centre |
June 12 |
Mike Walker |
Tuckers Hall |
August 14 |
Dr John Salvatore |
Topsham Road Excavations |
October 9 |
Clare Maudling |
History of Post War Exeter |
December 11 |
Peter Dare |
Types of Stones in the Cathedral |
2015 |
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February 12th |
AGM & Frances Allwright |
Wynards Almshouses |
April 9th |
Steve Paterson |
Magical Beliefs & Practices in the West Country |
June 11 |
Malcolm Grigorey |
Teign Valley Railway |
August 14th |
David Cornforth |
Pre-WW2 aerial photographs |
October 8th |
David Force |
History of Force & Sons |
December 10th |
Richard Holladay |
Industrial Life in Pre-War Exeter |
2016 |
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February 11th |
Christine Trigger |
Past Exeter: Sidney Endacott's Watercolours |
April 14th |
Tony Lethbridge |
Exeter and the Great War |
June 9th |
Kevin White & John Davidson |
Exeter School: Its History |
August 11th & 6 September |
Dr Todd Gray |
100 Things You Should Know About Exeter |
October 13th |
Malcolm Foster |
Norman Exeter |
December 8th |
Michael Parrott |
Polish Air Fighters in WW2 |
February 11th |
Christine Trigger |
Past Exeter: Sidney Endacott's Watercolours |
2017 |
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February 9 |
Sam Rainbow |
History of the YMCA |
April 13 |
Dr Julia Neville |
Exeter’s First World War Hospitals |
June 8 |
Dr Kate Osborne |
Exeter’s Medieval Bakers |
August 10 |
Chris Reed & Todd Gray |
Medieval maps to the present day |
October 12 |
Ed Williams-Hawkes |
Deller’s Cafe |
December 11 |
Robert Hesketh |
Christmas Quiz |
2018 |
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February 14 |
Martin Horrell |
St David’s Church Reredos |
April 11 |
John Allan |
Building of Exeter Cathedral |
June 8 |
Julia Neville |
the Fight for Votes for Women, 1866-1918 |
August 10 |
Richard Holladay |
Dr Lovely and the Workmen’s Dwellings Company |
October 12 |
John Allan |
Building of Exeter Cathedral (cont from 11 April) |
December 11 |
Jill Kemp |
A Tudor Christmas |
2019 |
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2019 | ||
12 February | Alan Rosevear | Travel Before the Railways |
10 April | Peter Thomas | Forty Years Of Local History |
12 June | Valerie Belsey | Green Lanes |
14 August | Andrew Johnson | Stained Glass |
17 October | Todd Gray | Individuals and the Mob 1500-1900 |
7 December | Jim Causley | History through Song |
2020 | ||
18 January | Backstage at the Northcott Theatre | |
12 February | Martin Horrell | A miscellany of little known facts about Exeter’s Churches |
8 April (cancelled due to lockdown) | Michael Parrott | Thomas Gregory – The Lifesaver of Exeter |
24 July (cancelled due to lockdown) | Caroline Walter | Northcott Theatre Archives |
13 August | Nicola Gale | Weather & War (audience limited to 25 due to Covid) |
2021 | ||
11 February | Clare Maudling | Post War Housing |
11 March | John Allan | St Pancras in the Middle Ages |
8 April | Dr Todd Gray | Exeter's Woollen Industry |
10 June | Robert Hesketh | Exeter's Tudor & Regency Buildings |
22 July | John Allan | Exe Bridge |
12 August | Professor Black | George III |
September | John Fisher | Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" |
18 November | Richard Holladay | Eland Books |
14 December | Dr Todd Gray | Christmas in Devon |
2022 | ||
14 January | Dr John Salvatore | Roman History of Exeter |
17 February | Dr Todd Gray | Emancipation in Devon in 1834 |
17 March | Martin Watts | Gristing & Tucking |
14 April | Dr Julia Neville | Farthing Breakfasts |
12 May | Michael Parrott | History of Higher Cemetery |
9 June | Mike Richards | History of Exeter's Hospitals |
14 July | Charles Scott-Fox | History of Exeter's Prisons |
11 August | Richard Holladay | Exeter City Sight Seeing Tours |
8 September | Dr Todd Gray | St Martins Island |
13 October | Peter Wingfield-Digby | Exeter Cathedral Memorials with Links to Empire |
10 November | Dr Julia Neville | More Tales from the West Quarter |
7 December | Dr Stuart Blaylock | Rougemont Castle: Buildings, Archaeology and Topology |
2023 | ||
12 January | Brian Thornton | Life in Exeter Since 1757 |
9 February | JoJo Sprinks | Squilometre Project |
9 March | Robert Hesketh | Devon’s Railway Heritage |
13 April | Charlotte Coles | Men of the Royal Navy |
11 May | Paul Jenkins | Devon General: Preserving the Legacy of the Devon General Bus Company |
8 June | Ian Maxted | Grievous Bodley harm? The strange affair of Exeter's medieval manuscripts |
13 July | David Oates | How to look at Exeter's Colourful Heraldry |
14 September | John Allan | Recent Excavations and Building Studies in Exeter Cathedral Cloisters |
9 November | Dr. Robert Guyver | General Sir Redvers Buller VC – In his Own Time and Our Time |
13 December | Dr. Todd Gray | Fire in Exeter |
2024 | ||
11 January | Ben Clapp | Martha’s Memories: The Later History of St. Nicholas Priory |
8 February | Dr Richard Crangle | The Magic Lantern - views of the local, views of the far away |
14 March | Tony Gale | Crediton and the Great Fire of 1743 |
11 April | Richard Holladay | Bedless and Lifeless: The History of The Devon and Exeter Hospital |