BLHA Speakers List 23/12/2015 In speaker Sequence Speaker title edition ed date society Evolution of Morris Dancing 107 2013 Sept Reading Ghosts and gouls of Surrey Heath 111 2015 Jan Sandhurst Valerie Alasia History of Henley workhouse 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley Cecily Amos History of Huntley & Palmers 111 2015 Jan Twyford Katie Amos The Timms family of Reading & London 113 2015 Sept Reading Michael Aris The Duke of Wellington and Stratfield Saye 107 2013 Sept Wargrave Brian Armstrong Experiences of a rowing coach 106 2013 May Wargrave Barbara Askew The Windsor Fire Restoration 111 2015 Jan Wargrave Philleda Ballard Culham Court 113 2015 Sept Wargrave Richard Bennett The Trooper Potts VC Memorial Trust 112 2015 May Reading Margaret Bilbe Working at Huntley and Palmers 112 2015 May Shinfield Graham Bilbe The story of toy trains 114 2016 Jan Shinfield Dr Penny Billyeald WW1 poets 106 2013 May Pangbourne Andrew Bird The RFC in Reading in WW1 113 2015 Sept Reading Sally Botwright London Oddities 108 2014 Jan Sandhurst Barry Boulton Local trades and businesses 113 2015 Sept Shinfield Nick Brazil Thames Valley artists and writers 110 2014 Sept Pangbourne Nick Brazil Literary and Artistic Footprints of the Thames 111 2015 Jan Purley Berks Stuart Brookes Anglo-Saxon Assembly Places 111 2015 Jan Archaeological Sue Broughton Copyright and data protection 111 2015 Jan Pangbourne Carol Brown Spies in petticoats 110 2014 Sept Sandhurst David Bullock Jack the Ripper and the Windsor connection 106 2013 May Windsor The impact of the Anglican Prayer Book on Rev David Bunney Hungerfotd 108 2014 Jan Hungerford Jane Burrell Poets of the Somme 114 2016 Jan Newbury Jane Burrell The history of Speen church 114 2016 Jan Newbury John Chapman The Royal Berkshire Regiment in WW1 111 2015 Jan Pangbourne John Chapman Ephemera can be fun 108 2014 Jan Reading John Chapman Purley Magna 112 2015 May Purley John Chapman Purley from the Air 111 2015 Jan Purley Berkshire connections with the Foundling Gillian Clark Hospital 113 2015 Sept Dils Symposium Ken Clarke The history of Camberley 107 2013 Sept Sandhurst Duncan Coe Managing Archaeology in West Berkshire 106 2013 May Pangbourne Mildred Cookson Life and times of a miller at Mapledurham 108 2014 Jan Wargrave Trevor Coombs The Roman road from Silchester to Dorchester 114 2016 Jan BHEF Mike Cooper The Siege of Reading 110 2014 Sept Swallowfield Mike Cooper History of Tilehurst 112 2015 May Reading Mike Cooper The bombing of a Southern town 107 2013 Sept Reading Mike Cooper a History of Tilehurst 113 2015 Sept Tilehurst Library Alan Copeland The changing face of Reading 108 2014 Jan Twyford Stan Cornford A stroll around St Georges Chapel Windsor 110 2014 Sept Shinfield Stan Cornford Three Berkshire Brothers go to War 111 2015 Jan Maidenhead Nicola Cornick The Cravens of Ashdown House 108 2014 Jan Hungerford Hilary Craven Eversley Barn Antiques 110 2014 Sept Swallowfield A disappearing landscape for the heathlands of Alan Crosby Berks, Surrey & Hants borders 113 2015 Sept Dils Symposium Audrey Curtis Twyford: scattered houses to prosperous village 107 2013 Sept Twyford Lyn Davies Living in the shadow of Dylan Thomas 111 2015 Jan Pangbourne Lyn Davies Dylan Thomas 110 2014 Sept Pangbourne Prof Lyn Davies The Breedon estate 106 2013 May Pangbourne Lyn Davies The History of Pangbourne 114 2016 Jan BHEF Lyn Davis Pangbourne - a century of change 1830-1930 112 2015 May Pangbourne Roger Day The Western Kennet valley in the Great War 109 2014 May Hungerford Roger Day The Local Defence Volunteers 107 2013 Sept Hungerford Inderpal Dhanjal The legacy of valour project 114 2016 Jan Swallowfield Joan Dils 100 years of Berkshire County Council 112 2015 May Reading Joan Dils Tudor and Stuart Feasts 111 2015 Jan Wargrave Joan Dils History of Whiteknight Park 114 2016 Jan Reading Edward Dixon The Suffragettes 1860-1928 111 2015 Jan Maidenhead Berks Ann Dodd Oxford before the University 111 2015 Jan Archaeological Ann Done Girdler - The house 114 2016 Jan Swallowfield Simon Draper The Parish of Newington 113 2015 Sept Goring Tony Eaton They failed to return 110 2014 Sept Swallowfield David England Some Berkshire Folk Tales 112 2015 May Sandhurst Aldon Ferguson Local airfields 106 2013 May Wargrave Dominik Berks Fleitmann Climate change and society 111 2015 Jan Archaeological David Ford Dangerous times in Tudor Berkshire 111 2015 Jan Twyford David Ford Legends of Berkshire 107 2013 Sept Twyford Tom Fort The A303 110 2014 Sept Twyford James Fort Scandals and crimes on railways 107 2013 Sept Twyford Tom Fort The A303 109 2014 May Twyford ken Fostekew The No 1 School of Aeronautics 113 2015 Sept Goring Ken Fostekew The air force in Reading in WW1 114 2016 Jan Twyford Dr Elise Fraser The Silchester excavations 108 2014 Jan Wargrave Fred Freeman Life as the village Chemist 109 2014 May Wargrave Andrew French History of the Berkshire Yeomanry 114 2016 Jan Newbury Inderpal Ghanjal Legacy of Valour 113 2015 Sept Battle Library Brenda Goddard The Girdler Family 109 2014 May Swallowfield Alex Godden Recent archaeology in West Berkshire 114 2016 Jan Newbury Gordon Goodey Anglo-Saxon Berkshire 113 2015 Sept Twyford Colin Gray Fleet Pond 109 2014 May Sandhurst Ann Griffin The archaeology of Knowl Hill 114 2016 Jan BHEF Leslie Grout St Georges Chapel Windsor 107 2013 Sept Wargrave Tony Hadland On your bike 112 2015 May Goring & Streatley Tony Hadland Thomas Vachell and his family 107 2013 Sept Reading Tony Hadland Pop pirates of the 1960s 110 2014 Sept Purley Tony Hadland Recusancy in Oxon ans Berks 113 2015 Sept Purley Peter Halman Parks 111 2015 Jan Sandhurst Peter Halman A walk through the park 106 2013 May Twyford John Harrison English Style Bells and bell ringing 111 2015 Jan Swallowfield John Harrison English styles Bell ringing 111 2015 Jan Sandhurst Sir Max Hastings The origins of WW1 108 2014 Jan Hungerford Elizabeth Hazeldine Fillets Court 110 2014 Sept Wargrave Peter Hearn Hennerton 112 2015 May Wargrave Colin Henwood Tradional Thames boats 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley Sue Hester The London open-air Sanatorium 112 2015 May Sandhurst Christina Hill- Williams The history and role of the High Sherriff 111 2015 Jan Wargrave Dr Christina Hill- Williams The role of the modern High Sheriff 109 2014 May Hungerford Jane Hirst A taste of life in 1942 111 2015 Jan Sandhurst Graham Horn Restoration of the Kennet and Avon canal 112 2015 May Twyford Sue Hourigan Parish Registers for Family History 113 2015 Sept Berks RO Sue Hourigan The good the bad and the ugly 114 2016 Jan Pangbourne Reading Central Sue Hourigan The Good, the bad and the ugly 113 2015 Sept Library Roger Hovell Crime in the Oxford Rd Reading 110 2014 Sept Reading Roger Hovell They'll kill you for a pound 109 2014 May Reading Robert Hughes The history of photography 111 2015 Jan Shinfield John Hughesdon The civic city of London 114 2016 Jan Newbury Pauline Humphreys The House of Lords 110 2014 Sept Twyford Mike Hurst Goring's wonderful railway 109 2014 May Goring & Streatley Janet Hurst Goring and Streatley 114 2016 Jan BHEF Mike Hurst Tracks to the trenches 114 2016 Jan Goring Gap Andrew Hutt The archaeology of Pangbourne 114 2016 Jan BHEF Stuart Hylton Reading in WW2 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley Stuart Hylton Reading in the 1950s 114 2016 Jan Reading Dennis Johnson Trade and Industry in 18&19c Reading 107 2013 Sept Twyford Jonathan Jones The town crier from Farnham 111 2015 Jan Swallowfield Rick Jones The Kennet and Avon Canal 107 2013 Sept Reading Reading Central Paul Joyce Railways of Reading 113 2015 Sept Library Tony Keep Policing Berkshire and Reading during WW1 114 2016 Jan Reading Brian Kemp Reading Abbey's Royal Connections 112 2015 May Reading Brian Kemp The royal abbey of Reading 114 2016 Jan Purley Lindsay Kerr Bramshill House 107 2013 Sept Sandhurst Tony King The Edwardians 110 2014 Sept Shinfield Tony King The Edwardians 112 2015 May Twyford Tony King The Way it was 112 2015 May Shinfield Bill King Walking the river Thames part 2 114 2016 Jan Purley Tony King Vanished London 114 2016 Jan Shinfield Martin Labram A Geographic Information system 114 2016 Jan BHEF Rebecca Lambert Excavations at Runfold Quarry 110 2014 Sept Sandhurst David Lee Films of local interest 107 2013 sept Reading Dr David Lewis The mediaeval hospital of St Peter in Windsor 106 2013 May Sandhurst Tom Macey Jacksons of Reading 108 2014 Jan Reading Rupert Mattthews Lost railways of Berkshire 109 2014 May Swallowfield Air Marshal McFadyn Windsor Castle 106 2013 May Hungerford Tim Metcalfe Farming in Purley 112 2015 May Purley Sue Milton Swan Uppers on the Thames 112 2015 May Goring & Streatley Shaun Morley Custom and ritual in 19th C Oxfordshire 111 2015 Jan Goring & Streatley Robert Needham A history of Bell ringing 106 2013 May Twyford Richard Nurick A history of wine 111 2015 Jan Pangbourne Colin Oakes Calendars - The many ways of counting our time 113 2015 Sept Shinfield David Oliver Cold war sites in Berkshire 108 2014 Jan Goring & Streatley Trevor Ottlewski Purpose built villages 112 2015 May Wargrave Trevor Ottlewski Early Domestic lighting 106 2013 May Sandhurst Trevor Ottlewski Purpose built villages 108 2014 Jan Twyford Keith Parry The fight for Cookham Commons 111 2015 Jan Maidenhead Victorian millioaires and their riverside Keith Parry mansions 108 2014 Jan Twyford Dr Hugh Pihlens The town and manor of Hungerford 109 2014 May Hungerford Anthony Poulton- Smith Berkshire place names 114 2016 Jan Wargrave Val Pretlove City of London hidden gardens 108 2014 Jan Sandhurst