Meetings
The Society generally meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month, September to May, at 7.45 pm - the venue is:
Tewkesbury Methodist Church, The Cross, Church Street, Tewkesbury, GL20 5PA Click HERE for map and directions.
You can use the front entrance or the rear in Swilgate Road where there is also a public car park. Click HERE for information concerning wheelchair access. The exception to meeting at the church is the January Social Evening which is often held at the Hop Pole.
All are welcome: Members - £3, Visitors - £5 (includes tea/coffee & biscuit). [AGM free]
Zoom online events
The Zoom program is fairly simple to install and work with - designed for non technical people. You don't need a working microphone or camera yourself to view the event in the "meeting". Hope to see you there!
24 Jul2025Thursday2:00pm | Summer Sing Song [Heritage Hub] |
15 Aug2025Friday7:45pm | Tewkesbury's Slave Labourers |
13 Sep2025Saturday4:00pm | Deerhurst Lecture 2025 |
18 Sep2025Thursday7:45pm | THS - Alderman Frank Knight [Andrew Paterson] |
30 Sep2025Tuesday7:00pm | Window on Tewkesbury [Museum] |
14 Oct2025Tuesday7:00pm | Edith Cavell - Forgotten Hero [Museum] |
16 Oct2025Thursday7:45pm | THS - Tewkesbury Abbey: Adventure in Research [Rev. Chas Whitney] |
28 Oct2025Tuesday7:00pm | Magical House Protection [Museum] |
20 Nov2025Thursday7:45pm | THS - Travels with a Camera Across Five Continents [David Elder] |
25 Nov2025Tuesday7:00pm | Re-birth of the Gloucester Warwickshire Railway |
9 Dec2025Tuesday7:00pm | Mumming and other Christmas Folk Traditions [Museum] |
22 Jan2026Thursday7:45pm | THS - Social: For Members, their Friends & Guests (Quiz) |
19 Feb2026Thursday7:45pm | THS - Baptists in 17C England: an Island of the Godly ... [Simon Lawton] |
19 Mar2026Thursday7:45pm | THS - Archaeology: Peasants, Cows and Monks at Cowfield Mill [Jonathan Hart] |
16 Apr2026Thursday7:45pm | THS - George Rowe, Artist and Lithographer [Dr Steven Blake] |
21 May2026Thursday7:45pm | THS - The World's Oldest Industrial Heritage in the UK [Adam Sapic] |
11 Jun2026Thursday | THS - Annual Summer Visit (to be arranged) |
17 Sep2026Thursday7:45pm | THS - Annual General Meeting |
May 2025 AGM Meeting
Following AGM business John Dixon gave an excellent talk on John Moore's Rogues. John is photographed with Derek Benson, winner of the 2025 Woodard Award.April 2025 Meeting
Steve Goodchild gave a very well received talk on the Battle of Tewkesbury re-examined.March 2025 Meeting
Author, Dr Andrew Chapman gave an erudite talk on Imagining History: the case for Historical Fiction.February 2025 Meeting
The Shepherd's Crook Folk Choir performed Songs From the Workhouse along with commentary.January 2025 Social
A very enjoyable and successful THS social with quiz was held at Trinity Church Hall.November 2024 Meeting
Andrew Mellor gave an excellent and well-received talk on Cider making in Gloucestershire: from Fox Whelps to Firkins!October 2024 Meeting
Simon Lawton gave a very good talk on the history and fabric of the Old Baptist Chapel and the evolution of the Baptist denomination.September 2024 Meeting
Richard Sermon gave a well attended and knowledgeable talk on The Leather Bottle: Cecil Sharp (1859-1924) and his Tewkesbury Folksong collection.May 2024 Meeting (AGM)
Georgia Smith, Tewkesbury Borough Council's High Street Heritage Action Zone Programme Manager who gave a very informative update on the progress of the project.April 2024 Meeting
Michael Trott gave a very knowledgeable and well-received talk on Ann Greening, the Mother of Edward Elgar.March 2024 Meeting
David Elder gave an absorbing talk on some of the people and places that feature in his book Secret Tewkesbury.February 2024 Meeting
Kat Keldeen of the John Moore Museum give an excellent and very well-received talk on the Tasting the Tudors: Food and Drink in the Tudor Period. [This talk was in place of the schedule talk on the Baptist Chapel that was cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances].November 2023 Meeting
Andrew & Caroline Mellor gave a very well received and engaging talk on The Dymock Poets.October 2023 Meeting
Nana Pierre gave an interesting and informative talk on her forthcoming book A Boy Called Silence.September 2023 Meeting
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May 2023 Meeting (AGM)
Following the business of our AGM and the awarding of the Woodard Prize to Sam Eedle for his article The School Mistress and the Cross, David Aldred gave an entertaining and informative talk on Hailes Abbey.April 2023 Meeting
Peter Covey-Crump gave an interesting talk on The Biography of an English Merchant in Bengal.March 2023 Meeting
Richard Chatham gave an informative and wide-ranging talk on Stoke Orchard; from Cider to Glider.February 2023 Meeting
Dr. Andy Mior gave an excellent talk on the Dendrochronology Project in Gloucestershire (dating buildings from their timbers).January 2023 Social
A very enjoyable and successful THS social was held at the Hop Pole on 26th. After our meals, Liz Poole of Cotswold Auction Centre gave a talk about her work and gave her opinion and value estimates on a number of interesting item that members brought along.November 2022
Joseph Gabbott gave a thought-provoking talk on 'The War Crimes Trials after the Second World War'. Joseph has written a book on the subject 'Nuremberg: Justice?'.October 2022 Meeting
Geoffrey Bush gave a very interesting talk on 'The Family of Oliver Cromwell 1300-1821'. Geoffrey is a descendant of the Protector through Cromwell's son Henry.September 2022 Meeting
Martin Robins and Adrian Buckmaster gave a very informative talk on the Dowty Company.Photograph shows: Adrian Buckmaster, George Dowty (son of the founder of Dowtys) and Martin Robins.
April 2022 Meeting
David Pegg gave an interesting and informative talk on his favourite Anglo-Saxon king, King Edgar.March 2022 Meeting
Kirstie Bingham gave a very informative talk on Tudor and Stuart Eduaction - 'Birch, Beer and Bibles'.February 2022 Meeting
November 2021 meeting
Paul Barnett gave a very interesting and entertaining talk on the Gloucester to Sharpness Canal.October 2021 Meeting
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September 2021 Meeting
A successful return to physical meetings was made on 16 September when James Boskett presented 'The Changing Face of Tewkesbury - Photos of the 1980s'.Videos of the meeting are available on our YouTube channel:
Zoom Meeting 25 March 2021
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A very successful 'Zoom' meeting was held on 25 March.
Author and historian, Nigel Messenger, gave a very well received talk entitled 'A First World War Love Story'. Click here for a synopsis.
November 2020 - Time and Tide
On 19 November, John Dixon presented via ‘Zoom’ what was meant to be Jon Talbot’s talk on Time and Tide (Tewkesbury photographs related to the rivers). This is a PDF of the slides used in the presentation (reduced quality to make accessible). David Bagley then quickly came up with some excellent follow up research. We are hoping members will keep digging for us to learn more.
THS 29th Season - First Meeting
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March 2019 Meeting
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