Our Past Meetings - normally held in June (the AGM) & October
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16 October 2022
Autumn Meeting: This meeting will be held at the Victory Services Club, Seymour Street, London W2 2HF on Saturday 15th October 2022.
Timing: 2pm
Programme: Speaker: Drew Whitworth, University of Manchester Institute of Education: The Coming of the Cable: Will high-speed internet access benefit or harm St Helena?
Getting There: The local roadmap can be viewed here
By Tube: By Tube: The nearest underground station is Marble Arch on the Central Line
By Bus: Many bus routes pass through the area download map of bus stops and routes In the locality of the Victory Services Club
By Train: The nearest rail station is Paddington, although VSC is easily accessible from all the other ones such as Marylebone, Charing
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16 October 2022
The Society's Autumn Meeting will take place on October 15th 2022 at the Victory Services Club, 63-79 Seymour Street, London W2 2HF
Speaker: Drew Whitworth, University of Manchester Institute of Education: The Coming of the Cable: will high-speed internet access benefit or harm St Helena?.
Please let Vicky Beale know if you wish to attend by email to trout666@hotmail.com -
10 October 2021
Autumn meeting and 34th AGM at the VSC. Tara Palembe, the Deputy Director of SAERI (the South Atlantic Environment Research Institute), gave a talk about the organisation’s activities at St Helena. Separately, Edward Baldwin briefly described the effects and management of Covid on the island. He also discussed other developments on the island including the major roadworks involved in widening Ladder Hill into a two-lane road and preparations for the landing of the Equiano cable in January.
The meeting was conducted in a very cordial atmosphere with friends and acquaintances meeting up who had not seen each other for a considerable time -
26 October 2019
Autumn Meeting at the VSC. The Times journalist Michael Binyon gave a talk on "An island for our Times". This described how he accompanied two readers trips organized by the Times at the beginning of 2019 and explained why there is continued interest in St. Helena. He also discussed the prospects for tourism with the new airport and why the island's history still has a fascination for anyone interested in the history of the British Empire.
Due to the Corona Virus national lockdown, the Society was unfortunately forced to cancel both the Spring and Autumn 2020 meetings. -
8 June 2019
Summer meeting at the Quaker Meeting House, Oxford. 31st AGM. A talk was given by Simon Pipe on his recent visit to St Helena. See The St Helena Connection No 26
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24 November 2018
Autumn Meeting at the VSC. Dan Yon showed a film, "Mining Memory - legacies of St Helena in the Northern Cape". This tells the story of the St Helenian men who travelled to South Africa in 1907 to work in the copper mines at Namaqualand. Robin Woodruff also gave a talk on the art & handicraft of St Helena's Boer War Prisoners. See The St Helena Connection No 25
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9 June 2018
Summer meeting at the Quaker Meeting House, Oxford. 30th AGM. Talks on Ascension were presented by John Woolven-Allen who discussed Ascension’s history from his perspective as a child on the island in the 1970s and 1980s. This was followed by Polly Burns who talked on her MSc thesis examining Ascension’s changing marine environment, particularly in relation to the occurrence of sharks. See The St Helena Connection No 24
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21 October 2017
Autumn meeting at the VSC. Colin Fox/Dan Yon spoke about the new book A Bitter Draught and Andy Pearson gave a talk about his recent paper entitled Waterwitch: a warship, its voyage and its crew in the era of anti-slavery. See The St Helena Connection No 23
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10 June 2017
Summer meeting at the Quaker Meeting House, Oxford. 29th AGM. Philip Woodworth and Matthew Woodthorpe respectively gave talks on Measuring the Tide at St Helena During the Past Two and a Half Centuries and an update on the St Helena Cultural Centre. See The St Helena Connection No 22.
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22 October 2016
Autumn meeting and 28th AGM at VSC. Matthew Woodthorpe and Andrew Bell respectively gave talks entitled The St Helena Cultural Centre and A New Ship for St Helena: The Gestation of the RMS. See The St Helena Connection No 21.