About

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