Local History Section Spring Symposium - jointly with the Wessex Centre for History & Archaeology

Anniversaries and Memorialisation

Date: May 2020

Five speakers were to focus on various anniversaries of events and persons, all of which have a particular resonance in Hampshire. Some are well known and others less so, in each case particular consideration was to be given as to how they have been memorialized.

Progamme

• 09.20 - Welcome & Registration

• 09.50 - Frank Green - Romsey Abbey - 900 years (the current Abbey building was opened in 1120)

• 10.45 - Dr Cheryl Butler - Peartree Church, Southampton - 400 years - the link is to a YouTube video - (consecrated 1620)

• 11.40 - Dr Tom Hulme - Mayflower - 400 years - the link is to a 19-minute podcast - and Mayflower and Britain - this link is to a YouTube video - (sailed from Southampton 1620)

• 12.35 - Lunch Break


• 13.35 - Dr Jonathan Memel - Florence Nightingale - 200 years (she had close family connections with Embley in Hampshire & was born May 12 1820)


• 14.30 - Refreshment Break


• 14.50 - Steve Alcock - Edwin Moon - 100 years (an aviation pioneer from Hampshire who died in flying accident April 29 1920)


• 15.45 - Finish

The Speakers:

• Frank Green - archaeological consultant and adviser to Romsey Abbey
• Dr Cheryl Butler - Hon. Fellow, University of Winchester
• Dr Tom Hulme - Lecturer, HAPP, Queens University, Belfast
• Dr Jonathan Memel - Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham
• Steve Alcock - Manager, Solent Sky Museum