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Saturday October 25, 2008
Start: 10:00
End: 17:30

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

Tuesday October 28, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

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

Saturday November 1, 2008
Start: 10:30
End: 12:30
 

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

Tuesday November 11, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

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

Saturday November 15, 2008
Start: 10:15
End: 16:30

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

Tuesday November 25, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

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

Tuesday December 2, 2008
Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
This talk by David Bird is in substitution to the previously-advertised talk on Samian by Joianna Bird who has regretfully had to withdraw.

David will aim to examine the evidence for Roman period religion and ritual under the following headings: towns and larger settlements; the countryside; daily life; settings and ceremony; deities and offerings; continuity?
Tuesday January 6, 2009
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

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

Tuesday January 20, 2009
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

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

Saturday January 31, 2009
Start: 10:00
End: 16:30

1000  Tea and coffee available

1030  Welcome and introduction

1035  The development of maps and estate plans  Carole Garrard, Local Studies Librarian, Surrey History Centre

Tuesday February 3, 2009
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

An illustrated talk by David Thompson, Curator of Horology at the British Museum

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

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

Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

An illustrated talk, by Jon Cotton, the Site Director, on the results of the 2008 work at the site.

Jon will bring us up to date on the outcome of this year's work in this on-going investigation into the site of a number of shafts and other features of Roman date. 


This talk has been deferred until a future date due to adverse weather conditions.

Tuesday February 17, 2009
Start: 19:30
End: 21:30

An illustrated talk by Dr John Russell, Vice President of the Newcomen Society

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

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