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15 April 2026Trollops, Trains and Traffic
18 March 2026Secrets of the Square Mile
18 February 2026Discovering Miss Byng
21 January 2026Sarah Wells "The Worst Housekeeper"
17 December 2025Celebrating 40 Years of Liss Area Historical Society
19 November 2025That's Life in a Blue Suit
15 October 2025Historic Costumes, Focussing on Menswear
17 September 2025Snowballs in June
16 April 2025Rails to Midhurst
19 March 2025Wings Over Dunsfold – from Top Gun to Top Gear. The history of ‘Surrey’s Most Secret Airfield, 1942 – 2024’.
19 February 2025The Dodd Family and The Harrow Inn, Steep
15 January 2025100 Piers, Painting at the Water’s Edge
18 December 2024The Priory and Manor of Lynchmere and Shulbrede
20 November 2024Living a Life Less Ordinary: The Story of Madge Turner (1884-1948)
16 October 2024From Cricket to Cookery - The Regimental Archive of the Royal Green Jackets
18 September 2024William Morris - Poet, Designer, Novelist, Publisher and Political Agitator (1834-1896)
17 April 2024Winchester Prison - Past & Present
20 March 2024The Olympic Games 1908: the First London Games
21 February 2024The Shippams Factory in Chichester
17 January 2024"Beware Carrots from Northumberland" - Lady Bette, Last of the Percys
20 December 2023"Items or Artefacts of Historical Interest"
15 November 2023A History of Beer and Brewing
18 October 2023Inside the Wardrobe
20 September 2023Haslemere People & Places
19 April 2023London Curiosities part II
15 March 2023St. Mary's Church Liss - History and Recent Refurbishment
15 February 2023Clinical Trials Past and Present
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21 December 2022Our Christmas Party, Wandering through Liss.
16 November 2022The South Downs Campaign: how the South Downs became a National Park
19 October 2022Anglo Saxon Southampton
21 September 2022The Diplomat Playboy - King Edward VII
20 April 2022The Tragedy of Telavåg- the worst war crime suffered by Norway in WW2 and its roots in Liss
16 March 2022Admiral George Anson, Baron Soberton, his Life and Legacy
16 February 2022Kate Harvey - The Deaf Suffragist, my Formidable Granny
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15 December 2021The Butler’s Christmas
17 November 2021The Archaeology of Petersfield Heath
20 October 2021The Fernhurst Furnace
15 September 2021“Down Memory Lane” The Midhurst Story
21 April 2021West Horsley Place: The House and its History
17 March 2021The Trinity House Story
17 February 2021The Non-Tidal River Thames
20 January 2021Seafarers and Scurvy the local connection via ZOOM
16 December 2020Short Films, Local History Films + Presentation via ZOOM
18 November 2020School for Spies - Stodham Park, Liss Also via ZOOM
19 February 2020The Naked German & the BBC
15 January 2020The Avebury Complex
18 December 2019The Civil War in East Hampshire. Christmas Party.
20 November 2019Boxgrove and its Priory
16 October 2019Queen Victoria's Children Part 2
18 September 2019The History of Pewter
17 April 2019The History of Hops in Hampshire
20 March 2019Hatchlands and its People
20 February 2019Dr Harry Roberts, the Oakshott Community and Petersfield Festival Hall.
16 January 2019Fishermania - The Celebrated Kitty Fisher
12 December 2018Good Stuff - Papermaking a History. Followed by the Christmas Party
21 November 2018The Land Army in the 1st & 2nd World Wars
17 October 2018Queen Victoria's Children Part 1
19 September 2018The History of the City of London
18 April 2018A Solent Cruise Part 2 (a talk)
21 March 2018Pompeo Batoni - Prince of Painters
21 February 2018The Jolliffes of Petersfield
17 January 2018A Piece of Paper & A Decent Pen
13 December 2017Christmas party evening. Bygone Tools Quiz
15 November 2017The History of Stansted Park
18 October 2017A Parcel of Gold for Edith
20 September 2017Farnborough - 100 Years Under the Flight Path
19 April 2017A Solent cruise - from Nab Tower to the Round Tower Portsmouth
15 March 2017The Assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand
15 February 2017The Conon Doyle Story
18 January 2017Treasures of Petworth - Demystified
15 December 2016Christmas Party: The Bedales Costume Collection
16 November 2016The Inns and Pubs in Petersfield- a Background on Pubs and Brewing
19 October 2016The Rise and Fall of Emma Hamilton
21 September 2016Empress Eugenie and the Farnborough Connection
20 April 2016Queen Victoria's Navy
16 March 2016Clandon Park - Rising from the Ashes
17 February 2016The History of Lincoln’s Inn
20 January 2016Registering Life’s milestones, births, deaths and marriages
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Trollops, Trains and Traffic Barrie Watson Wednesday 15 April 2026

Much changed in Liphook over the 19th century.  The presentation tells how Liphook developed from an agricultural parish with rural poverty resulting in the outbreak of Swing Riots in the early century.  Was this the cause of moral decadence? The local vicar certainly thought so! Coaching brought prosperity until it was killed off by the railway.  And from the very invention of the motor car everyone complained about the traffic!