Diary Dates 2008
Apart
from outside visits,
all meetings are held in the Music Room of
the Central Library.
Start Times 7.30pm
Tea and coffee available
April 10 2007 Christine Trigger will give a talk on Fred Karno, master of mirth and tears.
June 12 2008 Dr Todd Gray will talk on "Devon - The Slave Trade"
August 14 2008
A talk by Professor Robert Snowden on the Stephens Church Project and
the discoveries found during the repairs and renovation of this city
centre church
October
9 2008
David Cornforth will present some short films of
Exeter accompanied by
photographs along the leat.
December
11 2008
Christmas event to include questions and answers with a panel of experts
See Coming Events for the summer outside meetings
Welcome to the Exeter Local History Society website
The Society exists to promote an interest in the history of Exeter -
it
is open to anyone who has an interest in the local history of Exeter.
Members can attend the bi-monthly meetings to listen to a variety
of
expert speakers on different aspects of Exeter's long history. In the
past, subjects have covered the Trafalgar Trail, colourful clergy of
Devon, the cinemas of Devon, and much more.
Visits to local places of interest are arranged, including in the
past,
the Devon and Exeter Institution, the Cathedral, walks around St Thomas
and more.
Membership costs £10 per year - to join please go to
the Contact Page
100 years Ago.....
The centenary of the birth of W G Hoskins
The historian Dr. W G
Hoskins and his mother Alice Beatrice Hoskins (nee Dymond) pictured
in 1908. His great
grandfather opened a bakery in Rack Street in the 1830's, before moving
to
Smythen Street. The family business ended up at St David's Hill,
between 1891 and 1895, with his father William Hoskins running the
bakery.
Hoskins is most noted for his books The Making of the English Landscape, Devon and Its People and Industry and Two Thousand Years in Exeter, all of which have become classics in local history. He died in 1992. Photo kindly supplied by Angela Marks, Hoskins niece - see W G Hoskins for a short biography.