Events – 2023
All talks are held within the Woodway Room of the Town Hall
and commence at 7.30pm unless otherwise indicated.
Admission to the talks will be £1.00 for members and
£4.00 for non-members. Complimentary tea, coffee and
biscuits will be provided after the talk.
January 2023 – No Meeting
3rd February 2023
Ethiopia
A mountain trek through Ethiopia’s fascinating historical
landscape.
A presentation by Norman Maudsley.
3rd March 2023
7.00 pm Annual General Meeting
7.30 pm Exeter Retail Shops 1880 to 1940
A presentation by Richard Holladay.
7th April 2023
The Lives of our 17th century ancestors – “Coffers, Clysters,
Comfrey and Coifs”
A presentation about life in the seventeenth century by Janet
Few.
28th April 2023 (NB a week earlier than usual)
The Remarkable Pinwill Sisters
19th Century Lady Woodcarvers who became one of the southwest’s
pre-eminent woodcarving companies.
A presentation by Helen Wilson.
4th June 2023 (Sunday)
A visit to the Pengelly Cave Trust and Museum at
Buckfastleigh
including a visit to Joint Mitnor Cave commencing at 2pm. Further
details in April/May.
7th July 2023
Welfare in Widecombe 1700 to 1900
Stories from the Widecombe archives about how welfare was administered
in those times.
A presentation by Roger Claxton.
August 2023 – No Meeting
1st September 2023
Chudleigh in the 1920s
A presentation by Helen Turnbull based on her researches as part of the
Devon Historical Society’s “Devon in the 1920s” project.
6th October 2023
Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Devon
A presentation by Devon County Archaeologist Bill Horner.
3rd November 2023
August 1914
How some Devon newspapers reported the outbreak of the First World War
from July 1914 onwards.
A presentation by Robert Hesketh.
1st December 2023
End of Year Social event.
More details nearer the time.
Events from previous years
2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2019 – 2020 – 2021 – 2022