Link to reports on previous talks but only as far back as November 2013.
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| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 29 November 2024 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 25 October 2024 | 'The Thames on the eve of Londinium, exploring a late Iron Age landscape' | Craig Campbell |
| 27 September 2024 | 'Octavia Hill and Wandsworth: how her work in the Wandsworth area sheds lights on her wider reforms.' | Elizabeth Baigent |
| 26 July 2024 | 'Revisiting Some Finds and Discoveries from the Borough following recent research, identification and interpretation' | Pamela Greenwood WHS |
| 28 June 2024 | AGM followed by 'The Great Houses of Putney' | Dorian Gerhold |
| 31 May 2024 | Exploring the lives of London's 19th-century poor - The burial ground of St George the Martyr Battersea. Link to site report in Current Archaeology | Rachel Williams and Dr Ceri Boston, Wessex Archaeology |
| 26 April 2024 | 'The calico people', about the calico printers of the Wandle valley. | John Sheridan from The Wandle Industrial Museum |
| 22 March (not 29/3 due to Good Friday) | 'The Joy of Post-ex: A summary of the post-excavation work so far on Tideway Site 4: Barn Elms' | Mike Curnow, Museum of London Archaeology |
| 23 February 2024 (Online via Zoom) |
What we can learn from the records of the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Workhouse | Adrian Finch |
| 26 January 2024 (Online via Zoom) |
14th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture: 'Before and after the Great Fire of 1666: debunking some myths' |
John Schofield |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 24 November 2023 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 27 October 2023 | An Update on Wandsworth's bid to be London Borough of Culture 2025 | Councillor Rex Osborn |
| 29 September 2023 | 'Layering London's History: Layers of London and the Possibilities of Digital Mapping' | Justin Colson, Institute for Historical Research |
| 28 July 2023 | '60 years of Archaeology in Wandsworth 1962-2022: important discoveries and iconic finds'. | Pamela Greenwood, WHS |
| 30 June 2023 | AGM followed by 'New research on Wardley Street, Wandsworth, and the history of Romany Londoners.' | Anna Hoare |
| 26 May 2023 | Battersea Channel live broadcast: the archaeology of this lost landscape. | Mark Stevenson, Archaeology Advisor GLAAS - South London |
| 28 April 2023 | 'Inspiring women of Battersea' | Jeanne Rathbone |
| 31 March 2023 | 'History of Fulham Palace Moat' | Alexis Haslam, Community Archaeologist at Fulham Palace |
| 24 February 2023 | 'The Mercenary River'. A history of Londons water supply | Nick Higham, journalist and author |
| 27 January 2023 (Online via Zoom) |
13th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture: 'Managing the archaeology of Inner London: current issues and new directions' |
Sandy Kidd, Team Leader (GLAAS) London & South East Region Historic England |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 25 November 2022 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 28 October 2022 | 'Archaeological human remains from the River Thames: perspectives from Barnes to Battersea' | Dr Nichola Arthur, previously at the Institute of Archaeology, University College |
| 30 September 2022 | 'The Star and Garter Home, Richmond' | Laura Irwin (Museum of Richmond) |
| 29 July 2022 | 'A skeletal portal to the past!' on the work of an osteologist and more | Jelena Beklavac, Curator (Human) Osteology, Museum of London |
| 24 June 2022 | 'Putney and Roehampton in 1665: reconstructing a seventeenth-century community' | Dorian Gerhold, WHS |
| 27 May 2022 | 'Native' neckrings?: New research on torcs from south-eastern Roman Britain in their national and European context. | Michael Marshall, Senior Finds Specialist, Museum of London Archaeology |
| 29 April 2022 | 'Wandsworth Common's history revealed by maps' | Philip Boys |
| 25 March 2022 (Online via Zoom) |
'Roman Road Infrastructure South of the Borough Channel: an alternative model' | Becky Haslam of AOC Archaeology |
| 25 February 2022 (Online via Zoom) |
'Making a living from the River Thames' | James Wisdom, Chair of Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society |
| 28 January 2022 (Online via Zoom) |
12th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture: 'Crossing the Divide: Roman activity in Putney and Fulham' |
Alexis Haslam, Community Archaeologist at Fulham Palace. |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 26 November 2021 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 29 October2021 | 'Revealing Holywell Priory, Recent Excavations' | Matt Edmonds, Pre-Construct Archaeology. |
| 24 September 2021 | Growing up in war-time Battersea | Carol Rahn |
| 30 July 2021 | Making their mark: analysing fingerprints and finger impressions on prehistoric pottery. | Meredith Laing, University of Leicester |
| 25 June 2021 | 'People and Families of the Wandle Valley' | Mick Taylor of the Wandle Industrial Museum. |
| 28 May 2021 | 'Merton Priory - an extraordinary survival' | John Hawks, Vice Chair Merton Priory Trust, Founder Merton Abbey Mills, Trustee Wandle industrial Museum. |
| 30 April 2021 | Black Lives in Wandsworth's History | Sean Creighton |
| 26 March 2021 | 'Ewell Pits and Quarries', an intriguing Early Roman quarry site | Rebecca Haslam of Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| 26 February 2021 | 'Heritage on tap: the Young's Brewery archive' | Emma Anthony, Wandsworth Heritage Service |
| 29 January 2021 | 11th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture: 'Blossom Street, a major multiperiod site in Spitalfields' |
Alison Telfer, Project Manager, Museum of London Archaeology |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 27 November 2020 (Online via Zoom) |
Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 30 October 2020 (Online via Zoom) |
'The Impact of Industrialisation on London's Health' a project studying the bones of Londoners. | Jelena Bekvalac, Museum of London |
| 25 September 2020 (Online via Zoom) |
The Heathwall, South London's most overlooked underground river. | Jon Newman, writer and archivist |
| March to July 2020 | No talks were held due to the Covid-19 pandemic. | |
| 28 February 2020 | 'Caroline Ganley (1879-1966) and the Women's Co-operative Guild in Battersea and Wandsworth' | Susan Demont, author |
| 31 January 2020 | 10th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture: 'Review of the last year's finds from London in the Portable Antiquities Scheme' |
Stuart Wyatt, Arts Scholars Finds Liaison Officer, Museum of London |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 29 November 2019 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 25 October 2019 | The History of Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, the home of William Morris | Miranda Poliakoff |
| 27 September 2019 | Making [dead] friends and influencing people: local lives in Wandsworth's archives | Emma Anthony, Archivist, Wandsworth Heritage Service. |
| 26 July 2019 | 'The Battersea Channel' | Virgil Yendell, geoarchaeologist at MOLA. |
| 28 June 2019 | AGM followed by a talk on 'Paul Fourdrinier, master engraver: a Huguenot life in London.' | Peter Simpson (independent historian) |
| 31 May 2019 | 'The Golden Age of Thames Antiquarians' | Jon Cotton |
| 26 April 2019 | Old London Bridge and its houses | Dorian Gerhold, WHS Chairman |
| 29 March 2019 | 'WHS Foreshore Survey 2016-2019' a look at new discoveries and changes to the foreshore. | Pamela Greenwood, WHS member |
| 22 February 2019 | Doggett's Coat and Badge | Rob Cottrell |
| 25 January 2019 | 9th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture 'Reflections on fifty years of London archaeology: 1968-2018' |
Bob Cowie |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 30 November 2018 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 26 October 2018 | 'A Roman Villa in Walthamstow' | Shane Maher of Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| Extra: Thursday 11 October 2018 at St Mary's Church, Putney 7:30pm | 'Thomas Cromwell' | Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch |
| 28 September 2018 | 'Henry Mayhew: pioneering Victorian social explorer' | Chris Anderson |
| 27 July 2018 | 'Plaster, Mortar and Timber Framing. The Fulham Palace Restoration Project' | Alexis Haslam, Fulham Palace Community Archaeologist |
| 29 June 2018 | AGM followed by a talk on 'Corporal Ted Foster, hero of Wandsworth' | Neil Robson, WHS |
| 25 May 2018 | 'Wimbledon Windmill 150 years' | Norman Plastow, Wimbledon Windmill Museum |
| 27 April 2018 | Votes for Women. A talk on the history of the women's suffrage movement, 1866-1928. | Elizabeth Crawford, historical researcher and writer |
| 23 March 2018 (not 30/3 due to Good Friday) | The Lost Ferry Crossing at Putney Bridge | Dave Saxby of Museum of London Archaeology |
| 23 February 2018 | Magic, Murder and Mendacity: John Dee and Thomas Digges in Elizabethan public life | Professor Glyn Parry, Roehampton University |
| 26 January 2018 | 8th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture A sarcophagus and a Roman Road in Southwark: Excavation at 25-29 Harper Road |
Ireneo Grosso of Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 24 November 2017 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 27 October 2017 | Liquid Assets: Interpreting the Prehistoric Finds from the London Thames | Jon Cotton |
| 29 September 2017 | Wandsworth, whitebait and the Thames fisheries | Roger Williams, author and publisher |
| 28 July 2017 | 'Merton Priory' | Dave Saxby of Museum of London Archaeology |
| 30 June 2017 | AGM followed by a talk on 'The Putney Debates' | Dorian Gerhold, WHS |
| 26 May 2017 | Enderby Wharf and the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph | Richard Buchanan, Southwark and Lambeth Archaeological Society |
| 28 April 2017 | 'The First World War memorial in Summerstown and its 182 stories' | Geoff Simmons |
| 31 March 2017 | The 'Transforming Orleans House Project' | Natalie Rhodes, Orleans House Gallery |
| 24 February 2017 | Henry Maudslay and his circle | David Waller - author, business consultant and former Financial Times journalist. |
| 27 January 2017 | 7th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture 'Discovering Roman Southwark' |
Harvey Sheldon |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 25 November 2016 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 28 October 2016 | Excavations at Brandon House in Southwark | Chris Mayo of Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| 30 September 2016 | Henry Smith - 17th century man of business, moneylender and philanthropist. | Lucy Lethbridge |
| 29 July 2016 | 'A Wandsworth Foreshore Miscellany' - recent discoveries by WHS along the Wandsworth foreshore | Dr Pamela Greenwood |
| 24 June 2016 | AGM followed by 'The Great Fire of London of 1666' - a talk with readings | Dorian Gerhold & others |
| 27 May 2016 | Liverpool Street station Crossrail site | Alison Telfer of MOLA |
| 29 April 2016 | 'Blueprint for Living' - The Story of the Fitzhugh Estate, Wandsworth | Sharon O'Neill |
| 1st April 2016 (not 25/3 due to Good Friday) | X-Ray Investigations into the Impact of Industrialisation on London Health. | Jelena Bekvalac, Museum of London |
| 26 February 2016 | The first saints in Clapham - radical puritan merchants in the 17th century. | Timothy Walker |
| 29 January 2016 | 6th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture The Late Roman Cemetery at Trinity Street, Southwark. |
Douglas Killock |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 27 November 2015 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 30 October 2015 | 'A load of old rubbish: Artefacts from the Walbrook valley and life in Early Roman London'. | Michael Marshall, Museum of London Archaeology |
| 25 September 2015 | 'Meet the Huguenots'. 'A presentation reflecting the courage, skills, and legacy of the Huguenots'. |
Charlie de Wet, Chair of the Huguenots of Spitalfields. |
| 31 July 2015 | 'A journey from Battle Bridge to King's Cross: the archaeology and history of a London suburb'. | Rebecca Haslam, Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| 26 June 2015 | AGM followed by 'Downstream: A History & Celebration of Swimming the River Thames'. | Caitlin Davies, Author & Journalist |
| 29 May 2015 | 'Using the Greater London Historic Environment Record'. | Stuart Cakebread, Greater London Historic Environment Manager, Historic England. |
| 24 April 2015 | 'Slave-owners of Wandsworth: legacies of British slave-ownership in the Borough'. | Nick Draper, University College London. Research Associate of the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership project. |
| 27 March 2015 | 'Tabard Square Revisited'. | Dougie Killock |
| 27 February 2015 | Wandsworth's war - surviving signs of World War 2 in the Borough. | Alan Brooks, WHS member |
| 30 January 2015 | 5th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture Roman Sculpture |
Francis Grew, Senior Curator of Archaeology, Museum of London |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 28 November 2014 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 31 October 2014 | 'Lions on Kunulua - excavations of Early Bronze and Iron Age periods at Tell Tayinat, Hatay, Turkey'. | Dr Fiona Haughey from the project. |
| 26 September 2014 | 'Zeppelin nights: London in the First World War'. | Jerry White, acclaimed author of books on eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century London. |
| 25 July 2014 | '50 years on the Foreshore' - marking WHS's half century of recording the local foreshore. | Pamela Greenwood, WHS. |
| 27 June 2014 | AGM followed by 'Streatham's History through its Built Environment' | Brian Bloice, Chairman of the Streatham Society |
| 30 May 2014 | 'Kings Cross Goods Yard: An Historical and Archaeological Approach' | Rebecca Haslam, Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| 25 April 2014 | 'Battersea in the frame - a short cinematic history'. Project website |
Aileen Reed, member of the Survey of London team and the Cinematic Geographies of Battersea project. |
| 28 March 2014 | 'The Heritage of Tooting Common'. More Details Here. |
Hannah Pemberton, Parks Development and Fundraising Officer for Wandsworth Council. |
| 28 February 2014 | 'The excavation of medieval London waterfront properties, from Swan Lane to Billingsgate'. | Dr John Schofield, historian and archaeologist of medieval and Tudor London. |
| 31 January 2014 | 4th Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture 'New discoveries from the Mithras Temple site - The archaeology of Bucklersbury House/Bloomberg Place'. |
Michael Tetreau and Jessica Bryan, Museum of London Archaeology |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 29 November 2013 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 25 October 2013 | Recent Archaeological Work in Southwark | Dr Chris Constable, Senior Archaeology Officer, Southwark Council |
| 27 September 2013 | 'London plotted: maps and plans of London buildings c.1585-1720.' | Dorian Gerhold, WHS Chairman |
| 26 July 2013 | Excavations at 8-10 Moorgate, City of London | Alison Telfer, Museum of London Archaeology |
| 28 June 2013 | AGM followed by 'Albert Hill: Tooting's Olympian' | Kevin Kelly, Herne Hill Harriers |
| 31 May 2013 | Roman Staines | Nick Pollard, Spelthorne Museum |
| 26 April 2013 | Fixing the Image: The Mapping of London 297-1900 (Held in Spread Eagle Pub as unable to access Friends Meeting House) |
Peter Barber, Head of Maps, British Library |
| 22 March 2013 (not 29/3 due to Good Friday) | In the Footsteps of Thomas Hardy: the Archaeology of St Pancras Burial Ground | Phil Emery Gifford (now part of Ramboll) |
| 22 February 2013 | The History of London Underground | Barry Lejeune, Friends of London Transport Museum |
| 25 January 2013 | 3rd Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture New Light on Roman Putney |
Pamela Greenwood, WHS Member |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 30 November 2012 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 26 October 2012 | 50 years of the WHS Archaeology Group | Pamela Greenwood, WHS Member |
| 28 September 2012 | 'The Secret History of London's Streets' | Jaime Taylor, TV Producer |
| 20 July 2012 (moved from 27/07 due to London Olympics Opening Ceremony) | An 'Enlightening' Discovery of Skeletal Remains from Excavations at the Royal London Hospital | Jelena Bekvalac, Dept of Human Osteology, Museum of London |
| 29 June 2012 | AGM & Samuel Leigh's Panorama of the Thames from Westminster to Richmond 1829 | Phillippa Heath, Richmond Museum |
| 25 May 2012 | Excavations at the British Museum | Rebecca Haslam, Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| 27 April 2012 | The Great Houses of Putney | Dorian Gerhold, WHS Chairman |
| 23 March 2012 | Excavations at Fulham Palace | Phil Emery, Gifford |
| 24 February 2012 | The X Factor in History: The Story of Wandsworth's Low-Born Meritocrats | Penelope Corfield, Emeritus Professor of History, University of London |
| 27 January 2012 | 2nd Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture
The Bridgettine Abbey and the Formal Gardens of Syon House: Excavations 2004-11 |
Harvey Sheldon, Birkbeck College |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 25 November 2011 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 28 October 2011 | Riverside Archaeology in Wandsworth in 2011. A chance to handle some of the finds |
Pamela Greenwood and Bob Wells, both of WHS |
| 30 September 2011 | Wandsworth & the Detectives: How Events in Wandsworth Led to the Creation of Scotland Yard | Dr Bob Morris, Former Office Civil Servant and Author |
| 29 July 2011 | Down by the River: the Work of the Thames Discovery Programme | Nathalie Cohen, Thames Discovery Programme |
| 24 June 2011 | AGM & Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill | Michael Snodin, Former Head of Design at the V&A |
| 27 May 2011 | Trouble and Strife Along the Prehistoric Thames | Jon Cotton, Museum of London |
| 6 May 2011 (moved from 29/04 due to Royal Wedding) | Entertainment in Battersea 1850-1914 | Aileen Reed, English Heritage |
| 25 March 2011 | Thames Tunnel: the Archaeological Impact on Wandsworth | Suzanne Burgoyne, Thames Tunnel Project |
| 25 February 2011 | A Battersea Burns Night: John Burns and the 1909 Town Planning Act | Lester Hillman, Town Planner |
| 28 January 2011 | 1st Nick Fuentes Memorial Lecture Archaeological Excavations in the Point Pleasant Area |
Chris Jarrett, Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 26 November 2010 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 29 October 2010 | 500 years of Tin-glazed Tiles in London, the Low Countries & Spain | Ian Betts, Museum of London |
| 24 September 2010 | Queen Mary's Hospital Roehampton: Review of Oral History Project 1945-2000 | Gordon Jones, Archivist |
| 30 July 2010 | AGM & Iron Age Finds in Wandsworth | Pamela Greenwood and Bob Wells (Both of WHS ) |
| 25 June 2010 | AGM & Screening of Common Voices DVD: Clapham Oral History Project | Sheena Callender, Big Up Films |
| 28 May 2010 | Thames Discovery Programme | Natalie Cohen, Thames Discovery Programme |
| 30 April 2010 | Wandsworth's Cemeteries | Dale Ingram, Conservationist |
| 26 March 2010 | Archaeological Discoveries at Fulham Palace | Phil Emery, Gibbards |
| 26 February 2010 | Victorian Housing in Bolingbroke Grove and Between the Commons | Colin Thom, Survey of London |
| 29 January 2010 | Recent Roman Discoveries in London | Alison Telfer, MOLA |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 27 November 2009 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 30 October 2009 | A Century of Archaeology in Egypt | Jeffrey Spencer, British Museum |
| 25 September 2009 | Brunel in Battersea: Boots, Boats and Bankruptcy | Simon McNeill-Ritchie, WHS Member |
| 31 July 2009 | St Bride's Crypt Population: Much to Aspire To! | Jelena Bekvalac, Museum of London |
| 26 June 2009 | AGM & Historic Clapham | Michael Green, Author |
| 29 May 2009 | The Thames Discovery Programme | Natalie Cohen, Thames Discovery Programme |
| 24 April 2009 | The Brewer, the Princess and Richmond Park: the story of a local 18th century campaigner | Mark Lankester, The Friends of Richmond Park |
| 27 March 2009 | Early Wandsworth | Pamela Greenwood, WHS Member |
| 27 February 2009 | An Art Deco block, Du Cane Court, Balham: its history, Japanese garden and celebrity residents | Greg Vincent, Author |
| 30 January 2009 | Early Andalusia | Alexander Fuentes, WHS Member |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 28 November 2008 | Members' evening | Short talks by members |
| 31 October 2008 | Drapers' Gardens - A Major Roman Site in the City | Neil Hawkins, Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| 26 September 2008 | The Story of the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building | Simon McNeil-Ritchie, WHS member and author |
| 25 July 2008 | 5th Century Burial Site at St Martin-in-the-Fields | Alison Telfer, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 27 June 2008 | AGM & The Boys' Brigade: 70th London Company | Chris Buss, Wandsworth Council |
| 30 May 2008 | Excavations at the Castle Pub Site, Putney | Dr Marit Gaimster, Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| 25 April 2008 | The Survey of London: Battersea | Prof Andrew Saint, General Editor of the Survey of London |
| 28 March 2008 | Batteries, Barracks and Batman - Coalhouse Fort Tilbury | Jon Catton, Director Coalhouse Fort Project |
| 29 February 2008 | A Ramble around the History of Tooting | John Rattray, Tooting Local History Group |
| 25 January 2008 | A History in Bones, Chelsea Old Church | Jelena Bekvalac, Museum of London |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 30 November 2007 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 26 October 2007 | Medieval Manors in Surrey | Dennis Turner |
| 28 September 2007 | Medieval Surrey - an Overview | Richard Savage, Surrey Archaeological Society |
| 27 July 2007 | Roman and Saxon Archaeology and the site of St Matins-in-the-Fields | Alison Telfer, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 29 June 2007 | AGM & The 25th London Regiment (Cyclist Battalion) | Keith Whitehouse, WHS member |
| 25 May 2007 | Nonsuch Palace | Jeremy Harte, Bourne Hall Museum, Ewell |
| 27 April 2007 | Pubs of Wimbledon Village | Clive Whichelow, The Wimbledon Society |
| 30 March 2007 | Putney in 1665 | Dorain Gerhold, WHS member |
| 23 February 2007 | Mortlake Tapestry Works 1618-1703 | Maisie Bown |
| 26 January 2007 | Public meeting to protest about the closure of Wandsworth Museum | n/a |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 24 November 2006 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 27 October 2006 | Nicholas Crisp's House in Hammersmith | David Jamieson, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 29 September 2006 | Anna Larpent's Diary | Mary-Ann Garry, Local Historian |
| 28 July 2006 | Ice-Age - With special reference to our area | Barbara Silva, National Ice Age Network, Royal Holloway College |
| 30 June 2006 | AGM & 'Magic Lantern to Multiplex' - The History of Cinemas | Richard Gray |
| 26 May 2006 | An Over-view of Roman Surrey with a comparison between the Roman Settlements of Ewell and Staines | Frank Pemberton, Epsom and Ewell Society |
| 28 April 2006 | The Wandle Mills | ? |
| 31 March 2006 | Recent Excavations at Merton Priory | David Saxby, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 24 February 2006 | Home and Family in Tudor and Stuart London | Vanessa Harding, Birkbeck College |
| 27 January 2006 | Re-inventing the Middle Ages: The Museum of London's New Medieval London Gallery | John Clark, Museum of London Early Department |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 25 November 2005 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 28 October 2005 | Scratch talks to replace booked speaker | Dorian Gerhold, Neil Robson, WHS members |
| 30 September 2005 | The History and Architecture of Shops and Shopping | Brian Bloice. Local Historian |
| 29 July 2005 | The History of Archaeology in Surrey | David Bird. Surrey County Archaeologist |
| 24 June 2005 | AGM & Liquid Assets - the best of British Lidos | Janet Smith, Secretary of WHS |
| 27 May 2005 | Winchester Palace, Southwark | Bruce Watson, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 29 April 2005 | From George Eliot to Queen Mary - the Making of Modern Southfields | Neil Robson, Editor Wandsworth Historian |
| 25 March 2005 | Good Friday - No Meeting | n/a |
| 25 February 2005 | The Industries of Wandsworth. 1635-1800 | Dorian Gerhold, Vice-Chairman WHS |
| 28 January 2005 | Saxon Royal Burials at Southend - recent spectacular finds | Robert Cowie, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 27 November 2004 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 29 October 2004 | Excavations at Merton Abbey - an update | Dave Saxby, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 24 September 2004 | Pepys in Clapham - recent research | Michael Green, member Clapham Society |
| 30 July 2004 | The Roman Site at Shadwell | Alistair Douglas, Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| 25 June 2004 | AGM & A Journey In Victorian London | Neil Robson, Editor Wandsworth Historian |
| 28 May 2004 | The Riverside Monastic Landscape of West London | Robert Cowie, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 30 April 2004 | Early Road Carriers, with Pictures |
Dorain Gerhold, Patrick Loobey |
| 26 March 2004 | The Craig Telescope, Wandsworth Common and the Big Dig | Greg Smye-Rumsby, Orpington Astronomical Society |
| 27 February 2004 | More than Morris: the artistic heritage of Hammersmith and Fulham | Jane Kimber, Borough Archivist of Hammersmith & Fulham |
| 30 January 2004 | Recent Roman Discoveries in Southwark and East London | Dougie Killock, Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 28 November 2003 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 31 October 2003 | Riverside Parish Churches | Natalie Cohen, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 26 September 2003 | WHS GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS TALK William McMurray and the Wandsworth Paper Mills |
Professor Alan Crocker |
| 25 July 2003 | The Archaeology of Prices Candle Works and the Bishop of York's House at Battersea | Karl Hulka, Pre-Construct Archaeology |
| 27 June 2003 | AGM & Stagecoach Travel | Dorian Gerhold, WHS Chairman |
| 30 May 2003 | A Roman Building at West Street, Carshalton | Jeff Perry, Sutton Archaeological Services |
| 25 April 2003 | Salubrious Homes for the Working Classes - The Shaftesbury Estate | Carole Pountney, WHS Member |
| 28 March 2003 | Reconstructing Roman Water-Lifting Devices from the City | Jenny Hall, Museum of London |
| 28 February 2003 | 'Education for Democracy': Battersea, Albert Mansbridge and the formation of the Workers Educational Association (WEA) | Sean Creighton, WHS member |
| 31 January 2003 | The Roman Port of London | Bruce Watson, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 29 November 2002 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 25 October 2002 | 40 Years of Archaeology in the Borough, The 40th anniversary of the WHS Archaeological Group |
Pamela Greenwood, WHS member |
| 27 September 2002 | Digging for victory in war-time Wandsworth and Battersea | Neil Robson, WHS member |
| 26 July 2002 | Richmond Palace, recent archaeological work | Robert Cowie, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 28 June 2002 | AGM & Exhibitions at White City 1908-1914 | Keith Whitehouse, WHS member |
| 31 May 2002 | The London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre (LAARC) | John Shepherd, Museum of London |
| 26 April 2002 | 'Everyman for Everyman - Himself Included', Friendly Society orders in England 1793-1912 |
Roger Logan, WHS member |
| 29 March 2002 | Good Friday - No Meeting | n/a |
| 22 February 2002 | History and development of the Mounted Police from 1870 | Chris Forrester, formerly of the Mounted Police |
| 25 January 2002 | London Bridge, the archaeology and other aspects of the bridge | Bruce Watson, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 30 November 2001 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 26 October 2001 | A New Look at Prehistoric London, To coincide with the new Prehistory Gallery |
Jon Cotton, Curator, Early Department, Museum of London |
| 28 September 2001 | Transport in old Postcards | Pat Loobey, WHS Chairman |
| 27 July 2001 | The Roman Invasion of Britain - A Different View | David Bird, Surrey County Archaeologist |
| 29 June 2001 | AGM & The 1951 Festival of Britain Exhibition and the Battersea Festival Gardens | Pat Loobey, WHS Chairman |
| 25 May 2001 | The Roman Temple in Greenwich Park, Recent work with 'Time Team' at this site |
Harvey Sheldon, archaeological consultant |
| 27 April 2001 | Wandsworth and Battersea Battalions of the Great War, a history of the two Pal's Battalions raised in 1915 by these Councils | Paul McCue |
| 30 March 2001 | A Sojourn in Swedish Archaeology | Scott MacCracken, archaeological consultant |
| 23 February 2001 | 'Seventeen Bridges to Wandsworth' 'E Boat Alley - the Wandsworth Collier Fleet in WWII' |
Brian Sturt, gas historian Craig MacCraiger, Wandsworth Society |
| 26 January 2001 | The Spitalfields Excavations, The later archaeology on the site shown on 'Meet the Ancestors' |
Chris Thomas, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 24 November 2000 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 27 October 2000 | London Bridge City Excavations, An important Medieval and Tudor site |
David Saxby, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 29 September 2000 | Wandsworth Borough's Local history Library | Julie Gregson, the new Borough Archivist |
| 28 July 2000 | Thames Living History | Mike Webber, Thames Archaeological Survey |
| 30 June 2000 | AGM & Early Advertising in Southfields | Neil Robson, WHS member |
| 26 May 2000 | The Roman Cemetery at Spitalfields, More on the famous cemetery shown in 'Meet the Ancestors' |
Jenny Hall, Early Department, Museum of London |
| 28 April 2000 | The South Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, Forerunners of the Territorial Army with Companies in the Borough |
Keith Whitehouse, Chairman of Fulhan and Hammersmith Historical Society |
| 31 March 2000 | The Archaeology of Whaling in London | Alan Pipe, Museum of London Specialist Service |
| 25 February 2000 | A Stroll Through Edwardian Streatham | John W Brown, WHS member |
| 28 January 2000 | A Circular Temple at Wanborough, on the more recent work at this well-known Romano-British site |
David Williams, Surrey Archaeological Society |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 26 November 1999 | Members' Evening | Short talks by members |
| 29 October 1999 | Mr Lawrence's Golden Age of Thames Finds | Jon Cotton, Prehistory Curator, Museum of London |
| 24 September 1999 | A little Known Picture of the Past - from the Parish Registers of Putney and Wandsworth | Jim Slade, secretary of WHS |
| 30 July 1999 | Saxon Putney and Wandsworth Revisited - debate | Dorian Gerhold, Pamela Greenwood, WHS members |
| 25 June 1999 | AGM & a talk (unknown) | ? |
| 28 May 1999 | The Archbishop of York's Battersea Manor House, on the recent archaeological and historical work at Prices's Candle Factory |
Duncan Hawkins, archaeological consultant |
| 30 April 1999 | Cinemas and Theatres in the Borough | Patrick Loobey, WHS Chairman |
| 26 March 1999 | The Archaeology of Kingston and the Museum Refurbishment | Paul Hill, Kingston Museum |
| 26 February 1999 | Westminster Hall: 1099-1999 | Dorian Gerhold, WHS member |
| 29 January 1999 | Childrens Past-times from Past Times | Geoff Egan, Museum of London Specialist Service |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 27 November 1998 | ? | ? |
| 30 October 1998 | Saxon London, an update on recent excavations | Robert Cowie, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 25 September 1998 | Battersea Poor and the Workhouse in the 19th Century | Jeremy Clarke, Wandsworth Museum |
| 31 July 1998 | Archaeological discoveries at Eaton Boating Lake site | Oxford Archaeological Unit |
| 26 June 1998 | AGM & Members' Evening | Short talks by WHS members |
| 29 May 1998 | Update on the results of the Society's work on the Thames Foreshore | Pamela Greenwood, WHS member |
| 24 April 1998 | The Meeting Place of the Brixton Hundred | Graham Gower, local historian |
| 27 March 1998 | The Archaeology of the medieval Horse and its equipment | John Clark, Early Department, Museum of London |
| 27 February 1998 | A Thousand Miles in the Footsteps of medieval Pilgrims: the History and Monuments of the Road to Compostela | Kate Nichol, WHS treasurer |
| 30 January 1998 | Recent Work by the Thames Foreshore Survey | Jon Binns and colleague |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 28 November 1997 | Water for Life - a talk polluted by jokes, on London's Water Supply | Derek Gooding, Education Officer, Kew Bridge Steam Musem |
| 31 October 1997 | No. 1 Poultry, the large 'Mappin and Webb' site in the city | A member of MOLAS |
| 26 September 1997 | Charlie Chaplin - the actor's early days in the Vauxhall/Nine Elms area | Zoe Brooks, Executive Director of Vauxhall St Peter's Heritage Centre |
| 25 July 1997 | Chinese Porcelain | Chris Jarrett, Newham Museum Service |
| 27 June 1997 | AGM & The artist's eye on the villages of Wandsworth | Pat Astley Cooper, Wandsworth Museum |
| 30 May 1997 | Update on the Thames Foreshore Survey | Mike Webber, Survey Field Office |
| 25 April 1997 | Social Housing in South London: History and Architecture | Brian Bloice |
| 28 March 1997 | Good Friday - No Meeting | n/a |
| 28 February 1997 | Cinemas in Britain and in The Borough of Wandsworth | Richard Grey & David Trevor-Jones, Cinema Theatre Association |
| 31 January 1997 | The Roman villa at Piddington, near Northampton | Roy Friendship-Taylor, the excavator |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 29 November 1996 | The Florence Nightingale Museum | Alex Attewell, the Curator |
| 25 October 1996 | Presenting the past: The New Roman Gallery at the Museum of London | Jenny Hall, senior assistant curator, Early Deprtment, Museum of London |
| 27 September 1996 | John Temple Leader - MP for Westminster who owned and developed one of the largest land-holdings in Putney in the 19th century | Rev Derek Vidler of St Simon's Church, Putney |
| 26 July 1996 | Guildford Castle excavations | ? |
| 28 June 1996 | AGM & The London Ice Trade | Dr Michael Essex-Lopresti |
| 31 May 1996 | The Blue Star Garage excavation, Putney | ? |
| 26 April 1996 | The History of St Paul's Church, Wimbledon Park, 1896-1996 | Elizabeth Simon, WHS member |
| 29 March 1996 | Excavations at the Cistercian Abbey of Stratford Langthorne | Ken McGowan, archaeological officer, Newham Museum Service |
| 23 February 1996 | St Pancras Vestry | John Richardson, Camden Local History Society |
| 26 January 1996 | The Thames Foreshore Survey - the archaeology between the high and low water marks | Michael Webber, project officer, English Heritage |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 24 November 1995 | Conservation in Wandsworth Borough | John Webb |
| 27 October 1995 | London's Bronze Age Trackways | Frank Meddens, Newham Museum Services |
| 29 September 1995 | Edwardian Brixton | Bill Linskey |
| 28 July 1995 | Greater London in the Roman Period | David Bird, County Archaeologist for Surrey |
| 26 May 1995 | New Views on London's Prehistory | Jon Cotton, Museum of London, Early Department |
| 28 April 1995 | The Building of the Great Westminster Clock - the Rise and Fall, and Rise Again of Big Ben | Viscount Midleton, WHS Vice President |
| 28 March 1995 | Medieval Putney Revealed | Nick Fuentes, WHS |
| 24 February 1995 | Victorian and Edwardian Athletics in Wandsworth | Kevin Kelly |
| 27 January 1995 | The Thames Foreshore Project: Recording the Archaeology of London's Foreshore | Gustav Milne, London Archaeological Research Faculty, University College |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 25 November 1994 | The Surrey Iron railway - the Worlds first public railway | Patrick Loobey, WHS |
| 28 October 1994 | The Roman Amphitheatre, Saxon Buildings and Other Discoveries on the Guildhall Site | Nick Bateman, Museum of London Archaeology Service |
| 30 September 1994 | New Museum Project (Wandsworth) | Pat Astley Cooper |
| 29 July 1994 | John Dwight and the Fulham Pottery | Chris Green, now of St. Albans Museum |
| 24 June 1994 | AGM & Allfarthing and Doune in the 14th century | Rita Ensing, WHS |
| 27 May 1994 | An archaeological talk | Pamela Greenwood & Nick Fuentes, WHS |
| 29 April 1994 | Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Surrey - The Neolithic ritual site at Shepperton and major sites at Brooklands and Thorpe Lea | Phil Jones, Surrey County Council |
| 25 March 1994 | Saxon London | Robert Cowie, MOLAS |
| 25 February 1994 | Battersea Old Town in it's various guises | Ms Jo Stanley |
| 28 January 1994 | The development of the windmill in social and mechanical contexts | Norman Plaistow |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 26 November 1993 | This Extraordinary Mission - the story of the Catholic Church in 19th century Wandsworth | Richard Milward |
| 29 October 1993 | Drawing on Archaeology: months spent excavating in Iraq, Egypt and Crete | Imogen Grundon, WHS |
| 24 September 1993 | I Spy Local History | Mike Bull, WHS |
| 30 July 1993 | Recent Archaeological Excavations in Wandsworth - by the Museum of London | Duncan Hawkins, MOLAS |
| 25 June 1993 | AGM & Collecting Local History | Pat Astley Cooper & Sue Barber |
| 28 May 1993 | From Gnomes to Neutrons - a light hearted study of ancient pottery from the 15th century to the present | Clive Orton, Institute of Archaeology & Editor of the London Archaeologist |
| 30 April 1993 | Road Transport before the Railways | Dorian Gerhold, WHS |
| 26 March 1993 | The Rise and Fall of Roman London | Dominic Perring, English Heritage, London Division |
| 26 February 1993 | History of Fulham Bridge and Putney Bridge | Keith Whitehouse |
| 29 January 1993 | Excavations of a Jacobean Garden - recent work at Eagle House | Geoff Potter, MOLAS & Rita Ensing, WHS |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 27 November 1992 | Woman Stained Glass Artists | Peter Cormack |
| 30 October 1992 | Roman Coins in London - a look at the ordinary and the idiosyncratic | Mike Hammerson, Museum of London staff |
| 25 September 1992 | Wandsworth Prison 1850 - 1970 | Stewart McLaughlin |
| 31 July 1992 | The Iron Age Settlement by the Hogsmill River, near Kingston: two important excavated sites are put in their regional context | Robin Nielsen |
| 26 June 1992 | AGM & Development of European Horology 1275 - 1850 | Viscount Midleton, WHS Vice President |
| 29 May 1992 | Egyptology - an introduction | David Lewis |
| 24 April 1992 | Transport in Wandsworth | Patrick Loobey, WHS |
| 27 March 1992 | A Reappraisal of Roman Putney | Nicholas Fuentes, WHS |
| 28 February 1992 | Members evening | Short talks by members |
| 31 January 1992 | New Troy - the Archaeology of Legendary London | John Clark, Museum of London staff |
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
| 29 November 1991 | 'From open fields to a London park' | Tony Shaw |
| 25 October 1991 | Merton Priory Excavations | Simon Mason & Penny Bruce |
| 27 September 1991 | ? | ? |
| 26 July 1991 | Excavations at Charter Quay, Kingston | Robin Nilson |
| 28 June 1991 | 'Roehampton 1600 -1800. An unstable landscape' | Dorian Gerhold, WHS |
| 31 May 1991 | AGM & 'A quest for the historical King Arthur and his relationship with the London Area' | Nicholas Fuentes, WHS |
| 26 April 1991 | Old views of Wandsworth | Patrick Loobey, WHS |
| 29 March 1991 | ? | ? |
| 22 February 1991 | ? | ? |
| 25 January 1991 | Roman Burials in London | ? |
This is as far back as the personal knowledge of the list compiler goes. The list was first made around 2013 from printed records.