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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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' …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
28 November 2007
Natural History Museum
London
Murder, suicide, bankruptcy and ruin have all been associated with Heron-Allen's amethyst. Known as the Purple Sapphire, Heron-Allen's amethyst was "cursed and stained with blood" according to Edward Heron-Allen who, himself worked at Natural History Museum as a researcher in the early 20th …
In his "Notes upon the Literary, Scientific, and Artistic Activities of Edward Heron-Allen, FRS" (Heron-Allen Society, Opusculum I (2000), EH-A wrote that after he lost his younger daughter Armorel Daphne in a car accident, within a fortnight of her having taken her degree (with first class honours) in Science, at …
Chichester District Museum
Chichester District Museum is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. In celebration the Museum put on a temporary exhibition about its collection entitled "A Better Mousetrap and the Selsey Feet". The "better mousetrap" is another story but the "Selsey Feet" originally belonged to Heron-Allen before ending up …
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 …
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 …
Presented by Dr Joan Navarre
Saturday, 12 June 2004
A group of about twenty, mainly from literary clubs, and three EH-A Society members assembled at 3pm. Close to to St. Mary Abbotts Church in Kensington on the anniversary of the day that Edward Heron-Allen read the horoscope of Cyril Wilde …
Article by Joan Navarre
When I presented a paper on Edward Heron-Allen in America (EH-A Society Meeting of 7 July 2002) I posed a research question: Where are all the photographs of EH-A?
EH-A documents that he had been photographed numerous times while in America (1886-1889). However, only a few …