To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk “19th Century Field-Names of Bridestowe Parish” by Ellen Chaplin (School of English, Nottingham University). This will be a joint event with Tavistock and West Devon...
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk “What tree rings can tell us of Devon’s buildings” by Dr Andy Moir, dendrologist. The development of dating techniques using tree rings now provides valuable...
A talk “Medicine and Geology” by Dr Albert Benghiat. His talk will recount the historical contribution of medical practitioners to the science of geology and go on to explore methodological similarities between the practice...
A talk given by Dr Jill Cobley. Presented by the Devon & Cornwall Record Society in conjunction with the DA’s History Section. In the mid nineteenth century the Devon antiquarian James Davidson visited all...
A talk by Ben Mee, owner of Dartmoor Zoological Park, a zoo situated north of the village of Sparkwell on the south-west edge of Dartmoor. In 2007, Ben wrote a book called We bought...
A Zoom talk by Professor Danielle Schreve, Royal Holloway, University of London Excavations at Sherford, the new town near Plymouth, have uncovered 30–60,000-year-old fossils, belonging to woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, hyena, horse, reindeer, mountain...
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk “Crime and composition. The detective novels and life of ‘Edmund Crispin’ (Bruce Montgomery)” to be given by Robin Wootton. Bruce Montgomery was a particularly entertaining...
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. An illustrated talk to be given by Professor Malcolm Hart. Professor Hart’s popularised talk on the importance of Devon’s geology will include historical sketches of the most...
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk “Distribution of Town Fieldnames in Devon” to be given by Claude Williams. Background: Field-names contained in the Tithe Map documents c. 1840 for fields located...
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk by Dr David Oates: How to Look at Devon’s Heraldry Heraldic designs and coats of arms are a common sight in our streets, churches and...