WELCOME
Recording and Preserving History
for Future Generations
To all members of
Romsey Local History Society
During Covid -19 we will send out newsletters by email.
Please send your email address, if you have not already done so, to
romsey.history@gmail.com
to receive your copy.
Newsletter will also be placed on the website under "Romsey's History" on the menu, for you to print out.
If required a paper version
can be sent - subject
to availability.
New 2020 Zoom "Online" Talks Programme - Click "Here" to see how to attend these Meetings
* Online Talk * - Monday 14th September 2020
Join meeting at 7.15 pm for 7.30 pm start
The Mysterious Death of William Rufus - Speaker: Andrew Skinner
"Members" will automatically receive an invitation to the talk with a 'Link' and 'Passcode' "if" they have already provided their email address to the Society.
"Non-Members" can also register their email address for this particular
talk via "romsey.history@gmail.com" in order to receive an invitation.
*Please Note* - an invitation does not always guarantee that you will be admitted
to an online meeting. However "Members" will be given priority so "Non-Members" should be aware that they may be asked to "leave" or "wait" to be admitted to a meeting where the number of Members wishing to attend may exceed our current "Zoom" limits on the actual day of the talk.
From the Romsey Local History Society Collection -
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*** It was gratifying to see that over 42 participants (including some couples) attended the first online meeting of the Society on 14th September - thank you everyone.
Contact us if you require help to join the next talk which is on the 12th October
"RAODS and the Plaza"
by Mary Harris
Next Meetings -
We are an active group of over 340 members which includes local amateur historians and archaeologists, whose aim is to research, record and preserve the history of Romsey and local areas for future generations.
Thursday 26th March at 7.30 pm
Romsey Town Hall Court Room
Why does Romsey have an Abbey?
Looking at the available later Saxon evidence in the local & a much wider context
Speaker: Frank Green
Friday 27th March at 2.15 pm
Romsey Town Hall Court Room
Amateur Dramatics before RAODS:
A slide show
Speaker: Phoebe Merrick
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