Events January 2025 to June 2025
Evening Meetings held in January and February 2025 will be via Zoom sessions.
Other meetings will take place at Romsey Town Hall either in the Court Room, downstairs, or in the
Council Chamber, upstairs, which can be accessed by a new "proper" lift installed in the rear of the Town Hall for the convenience of those who may have difficulty using the front staircase.
All events and venues maybe subject to change at short notice.
Register your email "here" to receive notifications of links to Zoom & details of any changes.
January 2025
Monday 13th January 7.30pm
Mapping Archaeological Sites in the Test Valley & Beyond
Speaker: Dr. Mike Heyworth
Venue: Zoom meeting
Friday 24th January 2.00 p.m. for Coffee
for a 2.30 p.m. start
Previously a version was presented via
"zoom" in 2023 but now a live talk given.
Domesday People
Speaker: Mary Harris
Venue: Town Hall Court Room
Thursday 30th January 7.30pm
Exploring the Medieval Inn
Speaker: Dr. James Wright
Venue: Zoom meeting
February 2025
Monday 10th February 7.30pm
Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the
Nabbataeans
Speaker: Francis Taylor
Venue: Zoom meeting
Thursday 20th February 7.30pm
Hitler and Me
Speaker: Barbara Burbridge
Venue: Zoom meeting
March 2025
Monday 10th March 7.30pm
Newspapers and their usefulness in
Family Research
Speaker: Sally Gardiner
Venue: Town Hall Court Room
Thursday 20th March 7.30pm
Plagues and Pestilence : Infectious
Diseases of the Past
Speaker: Professor Margaret Cox
Venue: Town Hall Court Room
Friday 21st March 2.00 p.m. for Coffee
for a 2.30 p.m. start
Sherfield English - A Slide Show
Host: Phoebe Merrick
Venue: Town Hall Court Room
April 2025
Monday 14th April 7.30 p.m.
Women, Work and Wool : The Women of
Tudor Southampton
Speaker: Dr. Cheryl Butler
Venue: Town Hall Court Room
Thursday 24th April 7.30 p.m.
Jane Austen and the Military
Speaker: Alan Turton
Venue: Town Hall Court Room
May 2025
Friday 2nd May 2.00 p.m. for Coffee
for a 2.30 p.m. start
Station Road - A Slide Show
Host: Phoebe Merrick
Venue: Town Hall Court Room
Monday 12th May 7.30 pm
A Historian in Search of the Everyday Life
of Townspeople in the Later Middle Ages
Speaker: Professor Chris Woolgar
Venue: Town Hall Court Room
Thursday 29th May 7.00 p.m.
A Visit - Wellow Church
Leader: Roy Perry
Meet at: Church of St. Margaret of Antioch,
off Hackleys Lane, East Wellow, SO51 6DR
June 2025
Monday 9th June 7.30 p.m.
King John and the Road to Magna Carta
Speaker: David Imeson
Venue: Town Hall Court Room
Friday 20th June 2.00 p.m. for Coffee
for a 2.30 p.m. start
The Petty House in Romsey
- a repeat of a Zoom talk from 2023
Speaker : Ronnie Munday
Venue : Town hall Court Room
Thursday 26th June at 7 p.m.
A Walk - Kings Somborne
Leader: Tricia Silver-Warner
Meet at: Car Park at Kings Somborne
Village Hall, SO20 6PP