Winter talks at the Civic Centre
Berkhamsted Local History & Museum Society meetings take place at 8:00pm in the Civic Centre, Berkhamsted from Sep to Mar. Visitors are always welcome @ £5 at the door.
10 Sep 2025
75th Anniversary Celebration with cake and drinks, starting at 7:00 pm
An evening of personal reminiscences by those who have lived in Berkhamsted for all or most of the last 75 years, including readings from Richard Mabey’s ‘love affair’ about growing up in Berkhamsted from his book Home Country
8 Oct 2025
Rev Henry Small of St Albans and the missing £20,000
This talk explores a surprising story that attracted the attention of the then Prime Minister and considers Small’s actions as part of a series of local banking scandals that affected almost everyone in St Albans
Jon Mein
12 Nov 2025
The White Mouse – Nancy Waite
Nancy was a highly successful secret agent of the Special Operations Executive. She lived with the daily threat of death at the hands of the Gestapo, becoming the Nazis’ most wanted female spy of WWII
Paul Barwick
10 Dec 2025
Regent Street Lights
Started in response to an article in the Daily Telegraph, which described Central London as drab and dull during mid-winter, this is the story of a local company which manufactured the very original Regent Street light displays dating back to 1954
Dave Allen
14 Jan 2026
Intelligence Networks behind enemy lines in WWI and WWII
A compelling account of agents, spies, couriers and heads of intelligence who risked their lives and found ingenious ways to smuggle intelligence. They sent coded messages knitted in jumpers and ran entire sections behind enemy lines. Operators sent over 800 radio messages to London and delivered more than 1000 reports. Helen has authored and edited over 25 books covering the social history of WWII including British Intelligence, the secret war, espionage, spies, and MI9 escapes and evasion
Helen Fry
11 Feb 2026
Berkhamsted in 50 buildings
Discover the history of our town and how it developed by way of 50 buildings. Paul has written many books and his latest Berkhamsted in 50 buildings should be available in time for this talk
Paul Rabbitts
11 Mar 2026
Archaeology on the HS2 line
A talk about the HS2 dig at Wendover south and Stoke Mandeville, which is of national importance
Doug Stuckey
(this talk preceded by AGM)
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