News & Events
Stay updated with the latest discoveries, research, and activities related to Edward Heron-Allen and The Heron-Allen Society.
What You’ll Find Here
- Research Discoveries: New findings about Heron-Allen’s life and work
- Publication Announcements: New books, articles, and papers
- Conference Updates: Symposia, workshops, and academic gatherings
- Community Contributions: Member spotlights and collaborative projects
Recent News & Events
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News and Events 2022
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…
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News and Events 2021
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…
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News and Events 2020
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,…
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News and Events 2019
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…
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News and Events 2018
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…
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News and Events 2017
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…
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News and Events 2016
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…
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News and Events 2015
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…
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News and Events 2014
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…
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News and Events 2013
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…
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News and Events 2012
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.20 was published. Articles included: ‘Unseen Corsica by EH-A, 1921’,…
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News and Events 2011
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 Centre, near Chichester on Tuesday, 11 January…
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News and Events 2010
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’; ‘Joint Meeting with the Royal Irish Academy’ by…
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News and Events 2009
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 about “Conserving the Saiga Antelope: Science…
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News and Events 2008
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 the Treasures of Marie Anna…
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The Heron-Allen Library at the Natural History Museum
Official opening of the new Heron-Allen Library door8th Annual Symposium5th July, 2008Natural History MuseumLondon 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 work of this group of beautiful single-celled, shelled organisms…
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News and Events 2007
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 in the Palaeontology Department. Pam…
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Heron-Allen’s Cursed Amethyst on show at The Vault
28 November 2007Natural History MuseumLondon 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 Century. The stone had been looted during…
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EH-A and Lady Margaret Hall
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 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: he…
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The Selsey Feet
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 here in the Museum. These…
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News and Events 2006
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 8 March, Timothy McCann, the Chairman of…
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News and Events 2005
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 of the Linnean Society of London…
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The London Adventure: Explorations into Hidden Literary London
Presented by Dr Joan NavarreSaturday, 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, Oscar’s eldest son. The area is…
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Edward Heron-Allen in America: A Rare Photograph by Napoleon Sarony
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 photographs are known to exist.…