History group

With in excess of 100 members, the group meets four times a year for lectures on a wide range of historical topics with a local bias.

All meetings take place in Walberswick Village Hall starting at 7.00pm.

Subscriptions are £7.50 per member per year and run from 1st January to 31st December.  If you join for the first time on or after 1st July, your payment of £7.50  per person covers you until 31st December the following year- up to 18 months membership for £7.50.

The group issues a Newsletter twice a year.

The archivist holds a comprehensive store of interesting local historical records and memorabilia, see "Archives" in the menu on the left of this page.

Committee Members - Updated from the AGM held on 24 April 2018:

Position Name Contact 
Chairman Rev Canon Harry Edwards  
Treasurer    
Membership Edward Wright  
Archivist Pat Lancaster patlancaster@btinternet.com
Secretary Mischi Vernetti WLHG@secretary.net
Newsletter Editor John English  
Committee Member Richard Steward  
Committee Member Nat le Roux  
Committee Member Rebecca Whiting  

 

The future programme of events/speakers is as follows. Everyone welcome. Members free. Guests £5.00. 

Date Item Time
Saturday 14th March 2020 Bloody Marsh, a talk by Dr Peter Warner on his book - NOTE START TIME  - POSTPONED 6.00pm
Tuesday 14th April 2020 AGM - POSTPONED 7.30pm
Saturday 26 September 2020 An illustrated Talk on Hester and Henry Cleminson of Walberswick by Marlies Veldhuijzen van Zanten - POSTPONED 7.00pm