Meeting reports 2019

  • Roman archaeological discoveries on the A14
    A talk by Dr Steve Sherlock, the Archaeology Lead for Highways England as it redevelops the A14 and A148 in Cambridgeshire.
  • The End of The War to End All Wars
    Dr Sean Lang’s third lecture to the Society launched the sequence of events to commemorate ‘The True Sons of Stapleford’ being held throughout November. He cast a very interesting light on several aspects of WW1 with many new slants and surprises for the non-historians among us.
  • What’s Beneath Our Village – Report on Test Pit Excavations
    Additional to our normal series of talks, this extra meeting was held to display and talk through the findings from the four-year series of Test Pit Excavations, carried out in 33 locations in the village.
  • Ports, Waterways and Railways
    Tony Kirby treated us to an authoritative lecture on the economic development of East Anglia between the Middle Ages and the present, all disguised as a slide show.
  • The David Parr House
    Tamsin Winhurst, the Trustee of the David Parr House, gave a most interesting illustrated talk:s full of detail about David Parr (1855-1927) himself, his family and working life.
  • Six Things You (probably) Didn’t Know About Stapleford
    We were delighted to persuade Helen Harwood, the all-but-official historian of Great Shelford, to cross the frontier with more Stapleford curiosities.
  • Billy Lincoln And His Films Of Biggleswade Life In The 1930s
    A talk by Hilary and Edward Street. Another nostalgic evening at the History Society to start the new year.  Biggleswade in the 1930s is only a county and a generation distant: instantly familiar as our parents’ world, yet vastly remote from today’s preoccupations.