Our monthly meetings usually take place on the second Wednesday of each month except August, starting at 2.30pm. After any business is conducted a guest speaker will give a talk.
Our current venue is St Joseph’s Church Hall, 2 Falklands Grove, Dorking RH4 3DL.
Members’ guests and other visitors are welcome for up to two meetings, after which they are invited to become members. Admission for members and guests is free.
Click on the talk title for more details:
- Brides, Booty and Battles
13 July 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
Historian and former Mastermind contestant Helen Poole describes the difficult relationship between England’s Tudor monarchs and the Spanish crown. - AGM & By Greyhound Around America
14 September 2.00pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
This meeting will be our AGM and will be held in the hall and online via Zoom. The talk will follow. Speaker Tim Albert says: “In this talk I look at the great country from an unusual perspective – two road trips on Greyhound buses half a century apart. “I draw on diary entries and original... - Dining with History
12 October 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
Former BBC broadcaster Jessica Thurtell looks at changes through the ages in the way we eat. - The Cinque Ports
9 November 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
The Cinque Ports were a confederation that provided naval service to the king in medieval times in return for tax and other privileges. They were not so much a navy as an important source of ships when needed, providing essential maritime expertise to the king when such knowledge was limited. Their pre-eminence in medieval times... - A Christmas Cracker
14 December 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
Town crier and performer Jonathan Jones delivers a miscellany of prose and poetry for the festive season, including works by John Betjeman, TS Eliot, Ogden Nash and Joyce Grenfell.