Saturday, 21st September, 10.30am – 4pm
Hereford Town Hall, St Owens Street HR1 2PJ
Admission is Free
Hereford History Day returns in 2024 for a second year following last year’s triumph. We have a full line-up for what is anticipated to be another fascinating day.
The programme includes three speakers, city walks, history slam, Young Historian Award *, and history supermarket.
This year’s speakers:
- Nick Barratt, from BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are – ‘Family History in the digital age’
- Clare Wichbold MBE – ‘The hallmark of citizenship: the campaign for women’s suffrage from a Hereford Perspective
- Major (Rtd) David Seeney – ‘The origins of the Regiment: SAS – born in the desert’
Download the Hereford History Day Leaflet
Full Programme
10.00 – 10.30
Civic Procession through Hereford Town Centre
11.00 am – 11.45 am
Talk – The Origins of the SAS with Major David Seeney
12.00 noon
Walk – Hereford’s Historic Buildings with Guild of Guides
12.15 pm – 1.00 pm
Talk – Family History in the Digital Age with Nick Barratt
1.30 pm
Walk – Historic Women of Hereford with Guild of Guides
1.45 pm – 2.30 pm
Talk – The Campaign for Women’s Suffrage from a Hereford perspective, with Clare Wichbold OBE
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm
Performance – The History Slam ‘Whose plinth is it anyway’
3.00 pm
Presentation – Winners of the Young Historian Award
Come and meet: Bartonsham History Group, Hereford Guild of Guides, Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, English Heritage, Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum, Hereford Cathedral Archives, Herefordshire Archives and Records Centre, Working Boys Industrial School, Rotherwas Together, Herefordshire Family History Society, Hereford Civic Society, The Woolhope Club, The Museum of Cider, The Waterworks Museum, Herefordshire Libraries, Catcher Media, and Hereford Rowing Club.
A big thank you to our sponsors: Hereford
City Council, Herefordshire Family History Society, Hereford Lions Club, Bill Jackson Properties, The Orange Tree, Watkins Thomas, Ogelby Butchers, The Coffee Cart, The Barrels.
See the 2023 Hereford History Day
* The Young Historian Award is in honour of long-standing Herefordshire Lore committee member Betty Webb. She first arrived in the county as an evacuee during the war as a teenager and never left. A true friend, mother and stalwart.
The event is made possible thanks to funding awarded to Herefordshire Lore from Hereford City Council.
Herefordshire Lore Chair Julie Orton Davies said:
“We are very excited to be planning this event and thank all members of the Council for making this possible. We hope this shows confidence and trust in our skills as a group to record and archive local history. We are very much looking forward to the day and look forward seeing old and new faces on September 21st.”
Members of the City Council said, “We recognise the contribution the organisation makes towards the city, and it was agreed that Herefordshire Lore be awarded a grant to support Hereford Local History Day. Not only has Herefordshire Lore provided a lifeline for the preservation of local history which might otherwise be lost, but also the opportunity to celebrate and appreciate our substantial and unique history; one which the city will surely welcome.”
Herefordshire Lore committee are excited to be delivering this event for the city: “we would like to thank members of the City Council for funding it.”
