About our talks

Talk by Adam Corsini. Layers of London is an interactive map resource based at the University of London. The project has worked with partners including The National Archives, The British Library, London Metropolitan Archives and Historic England to gather together London’s most iconic maps and geo-reference them, enabling individuals to discover how areas have changed throughout history. Additionally, the site encourages individuals to contribute their own content including local history, personal memories, and interesting facts to enrich the site with people’s own accounts and recollections of how areas have changed. In his talk Adam will present the site and demonstrate how it can be used and how people can get involved. The project can be accessed from layersoflondon.org.uk Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly news e-mails.

Talk by Graham Campbell (London Borough of Enfield). The Enfield Chase Restoration Project has an overall vision to create a long-term, multi-beneficial, publicly accessible woodland within the rural area of Enfield in order to benefit the local community and improve the environment of Enfield.

Led by Enfield Council the woodland design process has considered ecology, local history, landscape, drainage and silviculture. It will include the improvement of up to 3km of existing footpath along the London Loop. The aim is to plant approximately 100,000 trees across 60 hectares over the next 2 winters, principally through volunteer and community planting events. It will be concentrated in the Salmons Brook and Turkey Brook upper valleys across Council owned land. The project is being supported by local charity Thames21 and is being supported by the Forestry Commission and the Mayor of London (GLA).

Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly e-mail news updates.

Talk by Richard Thomas. Follow the building of this 400 year old 40 mile long wandering man-made waterway from Chadwell Spring in Hertfordshire to the Round Pond in Islington. It was created to supply Jacobean London with fresh drinking water when many of the population were having to consume untreated River Thames water.

Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly news e-mails.

Talk by Adam Corsini. Layers of London is an interactive map resource based at the University of London. The project has worked with partners including The National Archives, The British Library, London Metropolitan Archives and Historic England to gather together London’s most iconic maps and geo-reference them, enabling individuals to discover how areas have changed throughout history.

Additionally, the site encourages individuals to contribute their own content including local history, personal memories, and interesting facts to enrich the site with people’s own accounts and recollections of how areas have changed. In his talk Adam will present the site and demonstrate how it can be used and how people can get involved. The project can be accessed from layersoflondon.org.uk

Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly news e-mails.

Talk by Graham Campbell (London Borough of Enfield). The Enfield Chase Restoration Project has an overall vision to create a long-term, multi-beneficial, publicly accessible woodland within the rural area of Enfield in order to benefit the local community and improve the environment of Enfield.

Led by Enfield Council the woodland design process has considered ecology, local history, landscape, drainage and silviculture. It will include the improvement of up to 3km of existing footpath along the London Loop. The aim is to plant approximately 100,000 trees across 60 hectares over the next 2 winters, principally through volunteer and community planting events. It will be concentrated in the Salmons Brook and Turkey Brook upper valleys across Council owned land. The project is being supported by local charity Thames21 and is being supported by the Forestry Commission and the Mayor of London (GLA).

Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly e-mail news updates.

Talk by Richard Thomas. Follow the building of this 400 year old 40 mile long wandering man-made waterway from Chadwell Spring in Hertfordshire to the Round Pond in Islington. It was created to supply Jacobean London with fresh drinking water when many of the population were having to consume untreated River Thames water.

Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly news e-mails.

Talk by Roger Squires. An Edmonton Hundred Historical Society meeting. Doors open 2pm. Visitors welcome, £1 each.

Talk by Nick Dobson. The Sixties saw London cast off the gloom of the post-war years and transform into the bright, swinging centre of style and culture. This illustrated timeline will provide a reminder of that groovy, swinging decade!

Zoom meeting details will be made available to members via our monthly news e-mails.

Talk by Mike Brown. An Edmonton Hundred Historical Society meeting. Doors open 7.30pm. Visitors welcome, £1 each.