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October 2020
President’s Symposium, October 2020
This event in its original form was cancelled because of COVID-19. Our 2020 "virtual" Symposium will be hosted by our President for 2020-21, Clare Broom. The topic will be Valuing and Restoring Nature. For…
Find out more »Swifts on Dartmoor – A Screaming Success (E Devon Branch)
On Friday 9 October 2020 the East Devon Branch was due to hold a joint meeting with the Sidmouth Science Festival and I am pleased to report that the scheduled talk can still be…
Find out more »Talk: Devon’s Woollen Cloth Industry, and AGM 2020 (Bideford Branch)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing Dr Todd Gray FRHistS, MBE, will talk on “Devon’s Woollen Cloth Industry”. Exeter's centuries-old woollen cloth trade may be a surprise to some. Now consigned to history,…
Find out more »Tavistock and the Taj Mahal: the town’s significance as World Heritage (Tavistock Branch)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk by Andrew Thompson, archaeologist and local historian. In the 18th and 19th centuries the economy and society of Tavistock and West Devon were transformed by…
Find out more »Mining and Miners of Newton St Cyres (IA Section)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk by Brian Please (introduced by Richard Pocock). It can be claimed that, together, Upton Pyne and Newton St Cyres had the first commercially successful manganese…
Find out more »November 2020
Brunel’s Grand Designs (IA Section)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk by David Greenfield (introduced by Mary Miles). The talk will include stories behind some of Brunel’s famous bridges. David Greenfield is a civil engineer and…
Find out more »Appledore Smuggling and Shipwrecks (Bideford Branch)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing David Carter, genealogist, director of Docton Court Gallery, and author of three books on Appledore’s history, presents: ‘Appledore Smuggling and Shipwrecks – The Truth’. We’ve all heard…
Find out more »December 2020
Silver Mining in Devon (IA Section)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk by Peter Claughton (introduced by Mick Atkinson). This presentation will look at the mining and processing of silver-bearing ores in Devon from the medieval period…
Find out more »Black lives matter – Racism and the legacy of slavery (Bideford Branch)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing Peter Reid MSc, MA, Educational Consultant VSO, Secretary of the Plymouth Ghana Link (a charity developing inter-cultural activities between Plymouth and Sekondi-Takoradi Ghana). The two cities that…
Find out more »January 2021
Provisional: Charles Kingsley (E Devon Branch)
A talk by Robin Wootton on Charles Kingsley - his writings and times.
Find out more »The impact of COVID-19 on the farming sector in Devon (Bideford Branch)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing Andrew Butler; National Farmers Union - Devon County Adviser – ‘The impact of COVID-19 on the farming sector in Devon’. He makes a return ‘visit’ to our…
Find out more »Provisional: AGM 2021 (Geology Section)
AGM followed by a joint meeting with the Torquay Museum Society at 11 30am. A talk: 'Mining in the Tamar Valley' to be given by Rick Stewart FSA
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