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01 November 2004 10:47:12

Subject : [SoG-NEWS] Events Around The Country

The Society regularly gets posters and flyers a volunteer has kindly
summarised these for members' interests.

VICTORIA and ALBERT MUSEUM

Exhibition: "Encounters: The meeting of Asia and Europe 1500 -1800"
Over 5000 years' worth of amazing artefacts from many of the world's
richest cultures.
Date: 23 Sept to 5 Dec 2004
Cost: £8; Senior citizens £6; Full time students and 12 - 17 years olds £5;
Free to under 12s
Programme of free events:
28 Nov - Encounters of Faith Day
4-5 Dec - Cultural Encounters weekend
Various dates - Classic Bollywood film screenings

FAMILIES in BRITISH INDIA SOCIETY

Annual Open Meeting
Venue: The Hyde Park Family History Centre at the Church of Latter Day Saints
Date: Saturday 13h November 2004 at 1.00 for 1.20 p.m.
Cost: Free
Topics: "The History and Growth of the Prints and Drawings Collection";
"The Andaman Islands"; Question and Answer session.
Details: Mrs Elaine MacGregor, 14 Gableston Avenue, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 5FG
Email

Advance warning: 2005 AGM & Lecture Meeting will be held at the Society of
Genealogists on Saturday afternoon 28th May 2005.

CITY & ISLINGTON COLLEGE
24 Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park N4
"British Death Customs" from prehistoric era to the 20th century
Two courses by Robert Stephenson
Dates: Sat. 13th Nov and Sat. 20th Nov at 10.00 - 16.00
Fee: £20 (Conc. £15)
Tel: 020 7700 9200 website: www.candi.ac.uk

CITY of LONDON CEMETERY & CREMATORIUM
Aldersbrook Road, London E12 5DQ.
Website: www.cityof london.gov.uk/cemetery
Free events:
Heritage Tours: Guided minibus Tours based on the popular Heritage Brochure;
To reserve places - Tel: 020 8530 9837. email

WESTMINSTER LIBRARIES and ARCHIVE SERVICE - MARKET WALKS:
Sat 6 Nov: The Bell & Church Street market walk.
Meet at Edgware Road underground station, Bakerloo line.
Sun. 14 Nov: The Petticoat Lane, Brick Lane and Spitalfields market walk.
Meet at Liverpool Street underground station on the concourse level inside
the ticket office
Sat 20 Nov: The Covent Garden Walk including location from Alfred
Hitchcock's film "Frenzy"
Meet outside Covent Garden Underground station
Sat 27 Nov: The Whitechapel Street market walk.
Meet at Whitechapel underground station on Whitechapel High St. near the
ticket booth
All walks depart at 11am on the day and last for 1.5 hours
Price: £12 (£10 concessions) for individual walks. All four walks £10 per
walk (£8 concessions).
Book at City of Westminster Archives Centre tel: 020 7641 5180
email

HERTFORDSHIRE ASSOCIATION for LOCAL HISTORY
25th Annual Symposium - Society & Religion in Herfordshire
Topics: Romano British Religious Beliefs & Rituals, the Knights Templar,
Baldock during the Refomation, Signs of protentantism in Hertfordshire's
Churches, Nonconformity in Herts.
Date: Saturday 13th November 2004 from 9.15 to 4.30
Cost: £9; £7 for members of HALH. Lunch bookable in advance @ £6
Applications to: John Merrett, 23 Bush Spring, Baldock, Herts. SG7 6QT by
31st Oct
Cheques payable to Baldock Local History Society enclose sae.

GREATER MANCHESTER COUNTY RECORD OFFICE

OPEN DAY: Talks - Getting started on your family tree, Family History on
the Internet, Using Archives for Family History, Conservation workshop.
Venue: 56 Marshall Street, New Cross, Manchester M4 5FU
Tel: 0161 832 5284; email: website: www.gmcro.co.uk

LONDON ARCHIVE USERS' FORUM

Visit to Special Collections at Senate House Library, University of London,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1 7HU
Date: Wednesday 19th January 2005
Cost: £5 per person (numbers limited to 15)
Website: www.shl.lon.ac.uk/historic/homepage.shtml

Applications will be dealt with on 14th November 2004
Apply to Christine Pitman, LAUF, 4 Hanford Cottages, Robinson Road, London
SW17 9DW

LONDON ARCHIVE USERS' FORUM Conference 2004

Venue: The Women's Library
Date: 13th Nov. 2004 10am - 4 pm
Topic: "Iron Ladies - Women's Lives in London and the records they left
behind"
Cost: £25 (£20 for members) includes buffet lunch & refreshments
Cheques (payable to the London Archive Users' forum) to Robin Woolven, Top
House, Campden Lane, Willersley, Broadway, Worcs. WR12 7PG enclose sae
for receipt.
Tel: 01386 852211; email robin.woolven@btopenworld.com

CORPORATION OF LONDON - Open Evening at Guildhall Library

Displays of items from the Guildhal Library, information on all Corp. of
London Libraries & Guildhall Art Gallery, tours of the Library's storage
areas,
Visits to the Library's consevation areas, Bookshop, light refreshments
Date: Wednesday 24th November 2004 from 5.30pm to 7pm
To attend please tel: 020 7332 1866 between 9.30 and 5.00 Mondays to Saturdays
or email: printedbooks.guilhal@corpoflondon.gov.uk

AUTUMN EVENTS at the BRITISH EMPIRE & COMMONWEALTH MUSEUM

Medieval manuscripts seminars:
"English Nuns & their books; problems of literacy & language" Thurs 28 Oct
Seng T Lee Centre, Senate House Library @ 5.30 pm
"The Lenten Distribution of Books at Thorney Abbey" Thurs 18 Nov
Room 329/330, Senate House @ 5.30 pm
"Roll or Codex? Fifteenth Century French Genealogical Chronicles" Thurs. 27
Jan 2005
Seng T Lee Centre, Senate House Library @ 5.30 pm
"Proliferating Script Classifications" Thurs 17 Feb 2005
Seng T Lee Centre, Senate House Library @ 5.30 pm
"The Classical Manuscripts of Holkam Hall" Thurs. 3 Mar 2005
Seng T Lee Centre, Senate House Library @ 5.30 pm
"Aspects of the King's Manuscript Collection" Monday 15th November 2004
Room 329/330, Senate House @ 5.30 pm
The Annual Palaeography Lecture Thurs 9th Dec 2004 "Abbot Frowin of
Engelberg & his Books: a Swiss Scriptorium of the 12th century"
Chancellor's Hall, Senate House @ 5.30
"The Arundel Manuscript Collection" Saturday 19 Feb 2005
Room 329/330 , Senate House

If you would like to attend any of the above events contact:
Jon Millington, Centre for Manuscript & Print Studies, Institute of English
Studies, University of London