This talk will cover the gadgets and methods spies have used across the world and throughout history. It was inspired by the speaker’s recent visit to the Berlin Spy Museum–if you haven’t been there, it’s highly recommended. We’ll be hearing about some of the wildly creative schemes, and just plain weird devices, creative people from Britain, America, Russia, Germany and elsewhere have devised over the years.

This talk will narrate the history of the Channel Tunnel through the 18th & 19th centuries, featuring the proposals that were put forward over this period, up to the final decision to build a tunnel.

Details to follow

For more on Richard, please see https://industrypast.co.uk

Roman Southampton was important but can be enigmatic, not least because so much material went into the River Itchen in the nineteenth century.

A RSG Zoom talk will take place on Tuesday 3rd March 2026. Emma Corke, Director of the Cocks Farm Abinger excavations will update  us as to the results of the 2025 season of work. Links to the previous interim reports can be found at https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/excavations-at-cocks-farm-roman-villa-abinger-2009-present-interim-reports

A RSG Zoom talk will take place on Tuesday 3rd February. James Bromwich, a renowned author of several Roman gude books including The Roman Remains of Southern France,  The Roman Remains of Brittany, Normandy and the Loire Valley: A Guide Book, and The Roman Remains of Northern and Eastern France: A Guidebook, will be talking to us on 'Commemorating the Dead: mausolea, towers and caskets. Contrast and curiosities ammong those able to afford burial memorials.

In lieu of our January talk we are pleased that Sussex Archaeology and History have invited us to its online lecture on 21st January 2026. The link is below but please book early as it is likely to be popular and places, although free, are limited. You can make a small donation to contribute to SAH costs. Link for the January 21st lecture online by Dr Giacomo Savani on Roman Rural Baths in Roman Britain: https://tixoom.app/sussexarchaeology/ra22utfp

We are looking forward to a talk by Peter Connelly on three Surrey Roman sites: The Roman villas at Chelsham, Titsey and Bletchingley.  Peter Connelly has been the Curator at East Surrey Museum since September 2019. 

The talk will take place by Zoom and the link will be sent to RSG members a week in advance.

The link will open at 7.15pm and the talk will start at 7.30pm.

If you would like to join the Zoom talk and you are a member of SyAS, you can join RSG for free via the membership tab.