The aim of the Society is:
- to bring together people interested in history, including local history;
- to encourage public interest in history; to encourage the study of history; and
- to co-operate with other bodies having similar interests and aims.
Please join us if you share our aims, as a member or guest.
We are pleased to have the support of the Bishop’s Stortford Museum which is housed within South Mill Arts, 1-3 South Street, Bishop’s Stortford CM23 3JG.
We subscribe to several magazines and journals and members may borrow them at meetings. They include:
- British Archaeology (published by the Council for British Archaeology)
- Herts Past & Present (published by Herts Association for Local History)
- Essex Journal (published by the The Essex Society for Archaeology and History)
- The Local Historian (published by the British Association for Local History)
- Local History News (published by the British Association for Local History)
- Occasional books from the Herts Record Society
Officers of the Society
- President: Bill Hardy
- Chair: Tim Howard-Smith
- Vice-Chair: Rob Francis
- Secretary: Rob & Pauline Francis
- Treasurer: Rob Francis
- Committee: Pauline Francis (membership), Margaret Hutt (programme), Diane Faulkner (refreshments), Mike James, Chris Connell (website), vacancy