Edward Heron-Allen, Archaeology and Local History
January
Pam Thompson will be giving a talk on January 30 at 18.30 for Birkbeck College Music Society. The talk is entitled: 'Edward Heron-Allen, polymath or dilettante: violins, palmistry, fossils and notoriety'.
March
The annual Heron-Allen Lecture at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, will be held on Friday 6 March …
"Edward Heron-Allen: Research in Egypt, La Rochelle and Sussex"
11.00am
Saturday, 27th June, 2015
The Minerology Seminar Room,
The Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road,
London
Edward Heron-Allen on board Rameses in Egypt
The Minerology Seminar Room is in the basement of the Natural History …
The Man in White': Edward Heron-Allen and the Thames
The 2013 edition of Sussex Archaeological Collections, being volume 151, included an article: "Heron-Allen and the 'Saxon feet' from Selsey" by David Bone on pp.187-192.
Bowden, A. J., Gregory, F. J. & Henderson, A. S. (eds), 2013. Landmarks in Foraminiferal Micropalaeontology: History and Development. The Micropalaeontologial Society. Special Publications …
"Edward Heron-Allen: Selsey and Beyond"
14.00pm
Saturday, 28th June, 2014
The Novium,
Tower Street,
Chichester
The 'Selsey Feet'
The Novium is the Chichester Museum situated in Tower Street.
Will those wishing to attend the Symposium please contact the Honorary Secretary, Juliet Field, at 40 …
Edward Heron-Allen and the Clare Island Survey, 1909-1911
The Society's Opusculum No.XVIII was published entitled, 'Edward Heron-Allen and the Violin' edited by Peter Horton. The Opusculum featured articles, including 'Edward Heron-Allen's Visit to Downside, 1886' by Timothy J. McCann' 'Edward Heron-Allen as a Music Critic', by Peter Horton and 'The Resurrection of the Edward Heron-Allen Violin …
"Edward Heron-Allen and his Collections"
10.15am
Saturday, 29th June, 2013
Sackler Room,
British Museum,
London
The remains of a Mammoth found on the beach at Selsey Bill
The Sackler Rooms are in the basement of the British Museum. When you enter the Great Court …
Edward Heron-Allen on Literature and Leisure; Proceedings of the 9th Heron-Allen Symposium, 2009
March
Professor Christopher Dobson FRS, Master of St. John's College Cambridge and Honorary Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, delivered the annual Heron-Allen Lecture: "New Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Neurodegenerative Diseases", at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, at 5.15 p.m. on Friday 2 March 2012.
May
The Society's Newsletter No …
"Edward Heron-Allen and some Women of his Acquaintance"
10.00am
Saturday, 30th June, 2012
Allen Room,
Dean Street,
London
Selina Dolaro
The Allen Room is on the first floor of the building next door to St. Anne's Church and is best reached from Dean Street …
Treasures: Decorative, Egyptian and Musical: More from Heron-Allen's Collections. Proceedings of the 8th. Heron-Allen Symposium, 2008
January
Joan Navarre's paper, 'Oscar Wilde, Edward Heron-Allen, and the Palmistry Craze of the 1880s' was published in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol.54, no.2 (2011) 174-84.
The Chairman gave a talk entitled, 'The Singular Life of Edward Heron-Allen' to the Chichester Science Group, at the New Fishbourne …
"Edward Heron-Allen and Music"
10.15am
Saturday, 25th June, 2011
Donaldson Room,
Royal College of Music,
Prince Consort Road
London
Diagram from "Violin-Making, as it was and is" by Edward Heron-Allen
Coffee will be available from 10.15am.
For the Royal College of Music take …
Armorel Heron-Allen and Oxford Proceedings of the 7th Heron-Allen Symposium, 2007
January
On 4 January Professor Malcolm B. Hart delivered a lecture entitled, 'Foraminifera of Plymouth Sound: The legacy of Edward Heron-Allen 70 years on', to the Ussher Society 48th annual conference at Plymouth in Devon.
The Society's Newsletter no.15 was published and distributed. Articles include 'The Ninth Annual Symposium' …
"Edward Heron-Allen, Archaeology and Local History"
11.00am
Saturday, 3rd July, 2010
West Sussex Record Office
Chichester, West Sussex
PO19 1RN
The Mound at Church Norton in Selsey
Transport Details and map
There are direct trains to Chichester from Victoria Station in London, from Gatwick …
Can anyone pronounce or identify TRTHWWSTHPLLGG in Cornwall mentioned in Princess Daphne? (Eric Trevanion's house) and does it mean anything?
Please send any information to the webmaster
Heron-Allen portrait
The painter of the portrait of Edward Heron-Allen that Ivor Jones has kindly allowed us to reproduce is unknown. All that is known about the portrait is that it was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition in 1927. The Society is anxious to identify the artist and any suggestions …
Request for help:
A colleague has recently bought a letter to EH-A from Gilbert James, the well-known book illustrator. In it, James offers to sell the originals of his pictures for the 1907 Foulis edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Does anyone recall hearing anything about those pictures or …
One of the long-standing queries on the website of the Heron-Allen Society is a request for information about Jessie Alice Palmer and the Jessie Alice Palmer Charitable Trust bequests. The query arose from the discovery of a report in The Times …
In his War Diary, Heron-Allen wrote on 9 February 1919: "I sent my 'squib' on the 'sitting face' to Arthur Humphreys, the literary bookseller of 'Hatchards', who accepted it at once for his delightful magazine 'Books of Today' and asked me to add a paragraph to fill a page. I …
Portrait of Heron-Allen by R.B. Ogle
(Click on the photo for detail)
The rediscovery by Mr. Clive Jones of Richard Bertram Ogle's portrait of Edward Heron-Allen was doubtless welcomed warmly by members of this society. Discoveries, however, have an annoying habit of generating …
The Purple Sapphire
March
The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture was held in Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford on Friday 6 March 2009 at 5.15, preceded by a reception in The Old Library.
The lecture was delivered by Professor E J Milner-Gulland, Professor in Conservation Science, Imperial College London. Professor Milner-Gulland will speak …
Members of the Heron-Allen Society at the Royal Irish Academy Dublin, 2 October 2009.
Dublin, Ireland
The Heron-Allen Society held its first international symposium at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin in October 2009, marking a significant expansion of the Society's activities beyond the …
"Edward Heron-Allen and Literature"
11.00am
Saturday, 4th July, 2009
Natural History Museum
Palaeontology Demonstration Room
(The Dorothea Bate Room)
Cromwell Road
London
The first edition of EHA's translation of the Rubaiyat
Meet at the Visitors Reception, on the left, inside the main entrance to …
Edward Heron-Allen and Music Proceedings of the 6th Heron-Allen Symposium, 2006
March
The Annual Heron-Allen lecture was held on Friday March 10th at Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Dr Neil M Ferguson OBE, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College, London spoke on "Planning for the unpredictable: how modelling can aid preparations for the next flu pandemic".
A Catalogue of …
"Treasures: Decorative, Egyptian and Musical: More from Heron-Allen's Collections"
11.00am
Saturday, 5th July, 2008
Natural History Museum
Palaeontology Demonstration Room
(The Dorothea Bate Room)
and Heron-Allen Library
Cromwell Road
London
Edward Heron-Allen's "Purple Sapphire"
Meet at the Visitors Reception, on the left, inside the …
Official opening of the new Heron-Allen Library door
8th Annual Symposium
5th July, 2008
Natural History Museum
London
The Natural History Museum houses the scientific library of Edward Heron-Allen. It is probably the finest and most comprehensive holding of literature on the Foraminifera in the world. It was for his …
Edward Heron-Allen and Friends Proceedings of the 5th Heron-Allen Symposium, 2005