Potters Bar & District Historical Society
Programme of talks 2025/26
The talks begin promptly at 8.00pm in the URC Church Darkes Lane Potters Bar EN6 1BZ view details here. Contact Us | Potters Bar United Reformed Church (pottersbarurc.org)
The church has extensive free parking at the front.
Admission is a £1.00 for members and £2.00 for non-members, refreshments available. All talks may be subject to changes due to availability of speakers or other external factors, these changes will be posted on the web site.
2025
December Monday 15th The Railway comes to Potters Bar + festive nibbles (Charge £1.00 members £2.00 visitors)
2026
January No Meeting
February No Meeting
TUESDAY MARCH 17th
Remarkable Women in Hertfordshire’s History, including best selling Tudor author Juliana Berners to suffragette Lady Constance Lytton A speaker from HALS (Hertfordshire Archive and Local Studies)
MONDAY APRIL 20th
The Belles of Belfast Titanic and the Olympic class Liners Rudi Newman (Doctor of History)
MONDAY MAY 18th
The Elephant Man Kate Thompson
MONDAY JUNE 22nd
Land Girls, Brocket Babies and Beyond – Hertfordshire home front in WW2 A speaker from HALS
MONDAY JULY 20th
Hatton Garden Chris Foster (Ex-Police Officer & Camden Town Tour Guide)
August No Meeting
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21st
On a wing and a Prayer – the British Imperial Airship Scheme 1924-1930 Rudi Newman (Doctor of History)
MONDAY OCTOBER 19th
Hertfordshire and the Slave Trade A speaker from HALS
MONDAY NOVEMBER 23rd
‘Aarken Moneta’ – Coinage in England of the 14th and 15th century, illustrated talks with images and objects Tim Lambon (makes and sells replica hand struck medieval coins)
MONDAY DECEMBER 14th
Talks by members with Christmas eats and drinks
All meetings are held in the United Reformed Church, Darkes Lane, and start promptly at 8pm.
Non members most welcome just come along.