TADS invites a speaker each month to give a talk, lasting approximately one hour.
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TADS speakers for 2021
| 20th January 2021 | Our National Chair, ‘The Windsor’ | Stewart Linford |
| 17th February 2021 | The Battle of the Somme | Phil Wood |
| 17th March 2021 | Smelly Alley in Reading | Stewart Linford |
| 21st April 2021 | Humour in Genealogy | Chris Bloom |
| 19th May 2021 | 1752 and all that | Mark Bowman |
TADS speakers for 2020
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 15th January 2020 | Beer, Sausages and Marmalade; Food, Drink, Politics and Tourism in 19th Century Oxford | Liz Woolley |
| 19th February 2020 | The Zulu Wars – End of an Era | Richard Anderson |
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23 March 2020 |
Start of COVID-19 lockdown | Online Speakers |
| 6th May 2020 | William Gill, Victorian Explorer and Spy | Tony Hadland |
| 17th June 2020 | “Putting Tadley on the map: from Gough to Google.” | John Leighfield |
| 15th July 2020 | Colin Spicket | Mark Bowman |
| 19th August 2020 | Jane Austin and the Military | Rupert Mathews |
| 16th September 2020 | Never had it so Good | Colin Oakes |
| 21st October 2020 | The Architecture of the London Underground | Mike Grundy |
| 18th November 2020 | Poisons for Medicine | Graham Harrison |
| 16th December 2020 | AGM |
TADS speakers for 2019
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 16 January | Top of the Greasy Pole | Mike Brook |
| 20 February | Coaches and Coachhorns: their story from the golden age to the present day | Colin Pawson |
| 20 March | The Mysteries of Stonehenge | Graham Loxton-Best |
| 17 April | Major Roller a Tadley Hero | Ian Burn |
| 15 May | A Place Apart: The Story of Park Prewett Hospital | Malcolm lsted |
| 29 June | The History of Blood Letting | Tim Smith |
| 17 July | The Edwardians (1901-10) | Tony King |
| 21 August | Summer break – no meeting | |
| 18 September | My Antiques Roadshow find out about your treasures | Simon Jones |
| 16 October | The History and Restoration of the Kennet and Avon Canal | Graham Horn |
| 20 November | A Celebratory History of Christmas | Andy Thomas |
| 18 December | AGM and social evening |
TADS speakers for 2018
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 17 January | A History of Hampshire Through Ten Objects | Tony Cross |
| 21 February | Brickwork | John Harrison |
| 21 March | A History of Tea | Terri Reid |
| 18 April | Metal Detecting | John Forster |
| 16 May | The Nabobs of Berkshire | Clive Williams |
| 20 June | The AA Man | Vera Hughes and David Weller |
| 18 July | Brunel and the Great Western Railway | Lionel Williams |
| 15 August | Summer break – no meeting | |
| 19 September | Major Roller – a Tadley Hero | Ian Burn |
| 17 October | Spies in Petticoats | Carol Brown |
| 21 November | Everyday life in the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt |
Anne Roberts |
| 19 December | AGM and social evening |
TADS speakers for 2017
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 18 January | Gilbert White, the gardener | David Standing |
| 15 February | Tree rings – a time and a place | Andy Moir |
| 15 March | History minus the boring bits | Susan Howe |
| 19 April | Englishness – a look at traditions and how they started | Chris Hutchinson |
| 17 May | Where is – what is that? Curiosities in Hampshire | Jill Daniels |
| 21 June | Padworth House’ | David Peacock |
| 19 July | Forgotten wrecks of World War I | Steve Fisher |
| 16 August | Summer break – no meeting | |
| 20 September | An introduction to surname studies | Heather Lawn |
| 18 October | Silchester Environs Project | Mike Fulford |
| 15 November | Woman of Wax; the remarkable life of Madame Tussaud | Tony Weston |
| 20 December | AGM and social evening |
TADS speakers for 2016
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 20 January | Secrets of the Box | Tony Weston |
| 17 February | The Plague | Dr Tim Mason |
| 16 March | Flora Thompson – Beyond Candleford | John Owen-Smith |
| 20 April | The Great Exhibition of 1851 | Rosina Brandham |
| 18 May | The Benedictine Way of Life | Reg Fletcher |
| 15 June | Birth of the English Parish Church | Dr Francis Hurd |
| 20 July | Children’s Experiences of the Second World War in Oxford | Liz Woolley |
| 17 August | Summer break – no meeting | |
| 21 September | The Mary Rose | Alan Turton |
| 19 October | Sanders of the River | Mike Hurst |
| 16 November | The Death of King Rufus | Gordon Lewis |
| 21 December | AGM and social evening |
TADS speakers for 2015
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 21 January | Going Shopping with the Victorians | Tony King |
| 18 February | Living Heritage – 300 years of bells, ringing and bell-ringers | John Harrison |
| 18 March | Place Names of West Berkshire | David Peacock |
| 15 April | The Bare Necessities – The History of Underwear | Ruth King |
| 20 May | The Battle of Waterloo | Rupert Matthews |
| 17 June | Stories in Symbols – The Secret Language of Heraldry | David Nash-Ford |
| 15 July | Eccentric London – Part 2 | Alan Copeland |
| 20 August | Summer break – no meeting | |
| 16 September | The Abbey and the Castle – Reading in the Middle Ages | Mike Cooper |
| 21 October | Major Ralph Henry Sneyd of Heckfield | Keith Haines |
| 18 November | The Last Days of Charles I | Alan Turton |
| 16 December | AGM and social evening |
TADS speakers for 2014
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 15 January | Winchester: bishops, buildings and bones | Andrew Negus |
| 19 February | Basingstoke Workhouse | Barbara Large |
| 19 March | The 1914 Mobilization | Dan Allen |
| 16 April | The Ladies of the Tower of London | Tony Strafford |
| 21 May | World War I memories | TADS Members |
| 18 June | Living with Jane Austen | Richard Tanner |
| 16 July | Codebreaker Bletchley Park | John Davis |
| 17 September | Medieval Southampton | Jack Wilson |
| 15 October | The English pub | Phil Wood |
| 19 November | Dickens at Christmas | Vera Hughes and David Walker |
| 17 December | AGM and social evening |
TADS speakers for 2013
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 16 January | Submarine history and the Gosport Submarine Museum | David Ottley |
| 20 February | The Basingstoke Riots | Bob Clarke |
| 16 March | Signposts and village signs | Bob Locock |
| 17 April | The Victorian defences of Britain | Michael Forrest |
| 15 May | A cockney childhood of the 1960s | Maggie Filkins |
| 19 June | A dip into the Willis Museum’s archives | John Holland |
| 17 July | Women in Tudor and Stuart Berkshire | Joan Dils |
| 18 September | Castles of Wessex | Alan Turton |
| 16 October | Roman uniforms | John Smith |
| 20 November | The history of the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway | Rex Hora |
TADS speakers for 2012
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 18 January | The work of a Registrar | Steve Thirkettle |
| 15 February | Timber framed buildings in Tadley and North Hampshire | Bill Fergie |
| 21 March | The secret Thames | Duncan McKay |
| 18 April | Berkshire lady fliers | Geoff & Val Beckett |
| 16 May | The banknote makers – the history of Portals | Dave Stone |
| 20 June | Glimpses of 19th centuary Berkshire and beyond | John trigg (very late substitute) |
| 18 July | An unexpected pot-pourri of historical chat! | Hannah Monger & Richard brown (On the night subs) |
| 19 September | The life and times of Sir William Paulet – the willow of Basing | Alan Turton |
| 17 October | The Basingstoke Canal – The last six miles | Roger Cansdale |
| 22 November | Farnborough: early flying in the UK and Samuel Franklin Cody | David Wilson |
TADS speakers for 2011
19 JanuaryThe Humble brickAlan Pritchard
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 16 February | The story of the town crier | brian Sylvester |
| 16 March | Computers and tea – Lyons’s electronic office | Quintin Gee |
| 20 April | A history of Hampshire’s maps, 1575-1820 | Gill Arnott |
| 18 May | The Duke of Wellington’s house at Stratfield Saye | Bigadier Michael Aris |
| 15 June | The History of the Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals | Marshall Barr |
| 20 July | William Sandys, builder of the Vyne, Lord Chamberlin to Henry VIII | John Jenkins |
| 21 September | Frost, freezes and fairs | Ian Currie |
| 19 October | Basingstoke and its contribution to world culture | Rupert Willoughby |
| 16 November | The Story of Thornycroft | Christopher tree and friends |
TADS speakers for 2010
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 20 January | Watermills on the Thames (meeting cancelled due to illness of speaker and weather) | Brian Eighteen |
| 17 February | The story of Fleet Street | Val Pretlove |
| 17 March | Rituals, society & power in and around Iron Age Berkshire | Dr Andrew Hutt |
| 21 April | Life on Halley 5 – an Antarctic research station | David Stephenson |
| 19 May | Dentaid – dentistry in the third world | Philip Postance |
| 16 June | The past in stone (Thatcham, Berks) | Malcolm Langford |
| 15 July | Transport in and around the Thames Valley 1920-1950 | Paul Lacey |
| 15 September | The people who made the Salvation Army what it is! | Major Stephen Grinstead |
| 20 October | 60 Years of AWE | Kate Pyne |
| 17 November | My railways and their development (West coast main line) | Dr Peter Ellis |
TADS speakers for 2009
15 JulyParish Life in Late Medieval ReadingJoan Dils
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 21 January | The Great Western Railway comes to the Thames Valley | John Chapman |
| 18 February | The Story of Southwark | Sally Botwright |
| 18 March | Jack of Newbury | Dr David Peacock |
| 15 April | The History of aviation in Berkshire | Ken & Jean Fostekew |
| 20 May | The Story of the Royal Berks Medical Museum | David Goodwin |
| 16 September | The life of an MP | Sir George Young |
| 21 October | The History of policing in the Thames Valley | Ken Wells |
| 18 November | A History of Punch and Judy | Alix Booth |
TADS speakers for 2008
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 16 January | Frank Hornby, the man who made Meccano, etc. | John Holland |
| 20 February | Down memory lane (film show) | Geoff Wheeler |
| 19 March | Death and disease in Medieval London | John Lloyd |
| 16 April | The creation of memories (Aldermaston village history) | Sally-Anne Martin |
| 21 May | An attractive impediment – the life of Patrick Campbell | Nick Thomas |
| 18 June | Nautical archaeology | Ian Barefoot |
| 16 July | Ufton Court, a house of secrets | Jane Burrell |
| 17 September | Experiences in WWII (Royal Engineers) | Alan Freeman |
| 15 October | Historic Syria | Richard Brown |
| 19 November | Basingclog Morris | Basingclog Morris |
TADS speakers for 2007
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 17 January | A Victorian Magic Lantern Show | Bill Arnott |
| 21 February | Land’s End to John O’Groats by bicycle | Christine and Bryan Watson |
| 21 March | Basingstoke Heritage Society | Debbie Reavell |
| 18 April | The Gurkhas | Major Davies |
| 16 May | The Blue Cross – 100 years of animal care | Craig Burchell |
| 20 June | The Madding Crowd – early church music | Mike Bailey |
| 18 July | Women in khaki | Ian Bailey |
| 19 September | Whitchurch Silk Mill | Geoff Hide |
| 17 October | A Barrel organ bonanza | Richard Kerridge & Keith Hilson |
| 21 November | The Watercress line (Mid Hants Railway) | Dave Yalden |
TADS speakers for 2006
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 18 January | William Cobbett (1763-1835) | Chris Hellier |
| 15 February | The Bevin Boys | Morris Pearce |
| 15 March | Basingstoke history – tape/slide show of 1964 | Last minute substitution |
| 19 April | Eye surgery in Bangladesh | Dr Lynette & David Moss |
| 17 May | It’s a monk’s life | Brother John of St Cross Hospital |
| 21 June | Filming ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at Basildon House | Neil Shaw |
| 19 July | Tidgrove Warren excavations | Peter Goff, Keith Whiteman and Peter Woodman |
| 20 September | Felons & fingerprints | Michael Carrigan |
| 18 October | Commons (especially Berkshire ones) | Oliver Jenks |
| 15 November | The history of England in pub signs | Greg Gregory |
TADS speakers for 2005
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 19 January | Early medical potions (19/20th Century) | Mrs Jenks |
| 18 February | Who pays the parson – funding the clergy | Oliver Jenks |
| 16 March | To Everest base camp | Bryan & Christine Watson |
| 20 April | Life at Hackwood Park (part 2) | Brian Spicer |
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| 20 July | The coroner’s service | |
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| 16 November | History of policing in Hampshire | Caroline Edwards |
TADS speakers for 2004
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 21 January | The sinking of the Lakonia | Christopher Smallbone |
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| 17 March | The squires and estates of the Kennet Valley | John Trigg |
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| 21 July | The Living Paintings Trust | |
| 15 September | The Roman Road at North Waltham | Richard Tanner |
| 20 October | The Treloar Trust | |
| 17 November |