This Conference, the second to be held following the publication of the Surrey Archaeological Research Framework in 2006, will we hope be the second in an annual series studying aspects of the Framework document (this can be found under Research | SARF) and debating some of the issues identified.

10.00:   Registration and coffee

10.30:  Welcome to the Morning Session

            Chairman: Dr. Joe Flatman (Surrey County Council)

An illustrated talk by Martin Watts, millwright and mill historian

 To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Lecture open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

 

10.00 a.m.           Coffee. Exhibits ready for viewing

10.25 a.m.           Morning Session. Chair Alan Crocker (Chair SLHC)

10.30 a.m.           Jane Furlong (United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials, Imperial War Museum): How we Remember - Commemoration in the UK and the work of the United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials

11.30 a.m.           Carol Brown (Guildford Museum): Women in Wartime

An illustrated talk by Peter Reese, Author

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Lecture open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

The Prehistoric Group AGM will be held in the Dorking Christian Centre (Upper Lounge) at 7.30pm. The meeting will be followed by a talk by Jon Cotton on "Towards a New Stone Age - the Neolithic in Surrey", starting at 8.15pm.

 

The Historic Buildings Committee has organised a visit to the Brooking Home Study Collection of Architectural Detail at Cranleigh.

An illustrated talk by Dr Peter Stanier, Author and Industrial Archaeologist

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

By popular request, the autumn meeting of the Forum this year will be devoted to Surrey's medieval towns, beginning to carry forward the thinking in Martin O'Connell's 'Historic Towns in Surrey' in 1977 (SyAS Research Volume 5), Dennis Turner's contribution on towns in the 1984 'Archaeology of Surrey to 1540' and the contributions by Phil Andrews and John Schofield in the 2004 'Aspects' volume.

Programme

10.15am          Tea and coffee available

 

A visit is being arranged to the villa by the Roman Studies Group. Further details will be posted here in due course

An illustrated talk by Ken Tythacott, Member of the British Vintage Wireless Society

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

An illustrated talk by Prof Alan Crocker, President of Surrey Industrial History Group

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

An illustrated talk by Chris Shw, Consultant

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

The Group held a very successful meeting on 20 September 2008 with the morning devoted to presentations on Manorial Records by Isabel Sullivan and Matthew Piggott, both of Surrey History Centre. During the afternoon we heard fascinating updates on the studies at Cranleigh and Hambledon, with a most interesting first presentation on the studies now in progress at Esher. We are grateful to the staff at Surrey History Centre for not only hosting this meeting but also for setting up a display of many original manorial documents with appropriate transcriptions.