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  • March The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture will be held on Friday 11th March at 5:45pm in the Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. The 2022 Heron-Allen Lecture will be delivered by Professor Amy Dickman, who is currently a Professor of Wildlife Conservation with WildCRU at the University of Oxford. Her talk is entitled ‘Warriors, Wildlife…

  • March The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture which is usually held in March at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, was cancelled due to the pandemic. It is hoped that next year’s lecture will take place in March 2022. May Following their publication of the Complete Short Stories of Edward Heron-Allen, Snuggly Press have this spring published Three Ghost written Novels…

  • January The newly formed Tallahassee Sette of Odd Volumes published as their Opusculum no. III Timothy J. McCann and John P. Mahoney’s “A Brief Biography of Author and Polymath, Edward Heron-Allen, 1861-1943” (2020). March The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture will be held on Friday 13th March at 5:45pm in the Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall,…

  • March The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture will be held on Friday 8th March at 5:45pm in the Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. The Lecture will be delivered by Professor David Western, senior conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and chairman of the African Conservation Centre. His talk is entitled ‘The changing nature of conservation…

  • February The Society’s Opusculum No. XXIV entitled ‘Edward Heron-Allen: Beginnings and Endings’, edited by Timothy J. McCann and John E. Whittaker, was published and distributed. The Opusculum included articles by David Thompson on ‘Edward Heron-Allen. A further brief Genealogy’; John P. Mahoney and Barbara P. Mahoney and Antonella Maraini on ‘The Mrs. E.C. Buckley – Sir Coleridge Kennard…

  • March The annual Heron-Allen Lecture will be held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, on Friday 3 March 2017, at 5.45pm to 7.15pm, in the Simpkins Lee Theatre. The speaker will be Rory Stewart OBE MP. He was appointed Minister of State at the Department for International Development on 17 July 2016, and was elected the…

  • March 4 March 2016: The annual Heron-Allen lecture and drinks reception will be held in the Simpkins Lee Theatre at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford at 5.15. The guest speaker will be Dominic Johnson, Alastair Buchan Chair of International Relations, Director of Research Department of Politics and International Relations. His lecture is entitled ‘Natural Governance: Lessons…

  • 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. [Details to follow] June The Society’s 15th…

  • January 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. Geological Society, London, includes on pp. 47-57 an…

  • January 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 No.2, modelled after the Joseph Guarnerius de Gesu…