Newent Local History Society
2025 Talks & Events

7.30pm prompt!

Visitors always welcome – £5.00 per meeting

Annual membership £15.00

Sheppard House Day Centre, Sheppard House, Onslow Road, Newent, GL18 1TL

2025 Events list:

Thu 9th Jan: Nurse Edith Cavell: Forgotten Hero by Mike Bottomley

Thu 13th Feb: Stroud Workhouse – A Danger to Sick People by Chas Townley

Thu 13th Mar: AGM and Talk on Stardens by Dood Pearce

Thu 10th Apr: Operation Barbarossa by Mike Walsh

Thu 8th May: The Medieval Towns of Gloucestershire by Nick Herbert

Thu 12th Jun: Landscape Legacy of the Normans by Alan Pilbeam

Tue 1st July: Summer trip

Fri 1st Aug: Summer Trip

Thu 11th Sep: Poverty, Pestilence and Privies – A Social History by John Dixon

Thu 9th Oct: William Marshal – his career and legend by Robert Jones

Thu 13th Nov: The History of Film by Patrick Furley

Dec: No meeting

More details available on the society’s website:

http://newenthistorysociety.org.uk/meetings