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The AGM was followed by a talk on by Oscar Aldred on Sir Cyril Fox and the Archaeology of the Cambridge region. Sir Cyril Fox PhD FSA FBA MRIA (1882-1967) […]
Our 2025 AGM took place as a face-to-face meeting in the Saffron Walden Library on Wednesday 14th May at 7:30pm. Documents that will also be handed out at the AGM […]
Just off Fleet Street, in what was the heart of the British national press is the St Bride Foundation. It was set up in 1891 as an institution to support […]
Perry has a long-standing interest in food history and social history, and many members will recall her excellent talk about Twelfth Night. In 2018 she was invited to take on […]
Hosted by local poet Hannah Walker the evening featured old and new poetry and include 'open mike' sessions. Come along to share your poems, or just to listen. If you […]
Old herbals, marginalia, saffron cultivation and Tudor poet, Gabriel Harvey of Saffron Walden will all be discussed in the next talk of the Gibson Library Society. In the sixteenth and […]
The meeting was held in Saffron Walden Library on Wednesday 14th January at 7:30 pm, when author Ian Patterson talked about his new publication, Books: A Manifesto, or, How to […]
Rachel Morris talked about her new book, The Year of the Wizard, a lyrical and highly atmospheric history of Renaissance magic. It is also - by an act of historical […]