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  • AGM

    The Old Town Hall Hadleigh, United Kingdom

  • Great War Huts in Hawstead

    Hawstead , United Kingdom

    This event is open to members only who have been sent instructions on how to book by email. Further details including the event organiser contact details can be found in the Members' Area.

  • Bardwell

    Bardwell , United Kingdom

    nr Bury St Edmunds (open to members only)

  • The Building Stones of Suffolk by Tony Redman

    Online

    Tony Redman has spent five years surveying every stone-built building in Suffolk, and this talk will be based on his new book “The Buildings Stones of Suffolk, and the people who worked them”, recently published by the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History.  Tony has identified 50 types of stone which are present in 700 […]

  • Housing The Poor c.1670-1870 by Dr Joseph Harley

    Online

    Dr Joseph Harley is a Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University and an expert in the history of poverty, welfare, material culture and domestic life. His most recent publications include Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700 (2025) and At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, […]

  • Late medieval shops and workshops by Leigh Alston

    Lavenham Village Hall

    Christmas Meeting at Lavenham Village Hall Late medieval shops and workshops in East Anglia - Leigh Alston The market towns and villages of Suffolk and Essex are rich in well preserved medieval and Tudor shops due to the region’s economic success in the 15th and early-16th centuries, followed by relative poverty after the collapse of […]

  • To List or not to list, this is the question – Dr Caroline Skinner

    To List or not to List, that is the question – Dr Caroline Skinner  What is ‘The List’ and what does it do? Why do some get added to the list and others don’t? Assessing a building for Listing has often been described as a dark art. This presentation explores the process for assessing buildings for […]

  • Recent research into the Sun Inn, Saffron Walden by Douglas Kent

    The Old Sun Inn is an enchanting and much-cherished Grade I-listed historic building in Saffron Walden, Essex displaying some of the best pargeting – external decorative plasterwork – in England. Originally medieval houses, then later an inn, the property has subsequently been in mixed commercial and domestic use. The Old Sun Inn is currently undergoing […]

  • Walpole Old Chapel

    Walpole Old Chapel - Katie Langridge, Cliveden Conservation Walpole Old Chapel began life as a late 16th century farmhouse, and from outside, very little has changed. However, its interior was transformed in the mid-17th century into a non-conformist chapel, one of the best preserved of its kind – SHBG held an AGM there a few […]