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News and Events 2022

by Heron-Allen Society

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 …

News and Events 2021

by Heron-Allen Society

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 …

News and Events 2020

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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 …

News and Events 2019

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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 …

News and Events 2018

by Heron-Allen Society

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 …

News and Events 2017

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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 …

News and Events 2016

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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 …

News and Events 2015

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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 …

News and Events 2014

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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 …

News and Events 2013

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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 …

News and Events 2012

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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 …

News and Events 2011

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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 …

News and Events 2010

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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' …

News and Events 2009

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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 …

News and Events 2008

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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 …

News and Events 2007

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February

The original door to Edward Heron-Allen's library at Large Acres in Selsey has been presented to the Society by the Pledger family. The door has been taken to the Natural History Museum, London and it is hoped that it will be re-erected as the door to the Heron-Allen Library …

News and Events 2006

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February

In the evening of 9 February, Timothy McCann, the Chairman of the Society will give an illustrated talk entitled, 'Edward Heron-Allen and the Heron-Allen Society' to the Local History Group of the Selsey Society.

Opusculum VIII entitled 'Edward Heron-Allen and Friends' distributed to members.

March

At 7.30pm on …

News and Events 2005

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February

In the evening of 9 February, Timothy McCann, the Chairman of the Society will give an illustrated talk entitled, 'Edward Heron-Allen and the Heron-Allen Society' to the Local History Group of the Selsey Society.

Opusculum VIII entitled 'Edward Heron-Allen and Friends' distributed to members.

March

The Linnean, the Newsletter …