Current Programme


The Society’s monthly talks take place at 7.30pm at Chiswick Memorial Club, Afton House, Bourne Place, London W4 – Bourne Place runs parallel to Chiswick High Road, between Dukes Avenue and Duke Road.

16 January 2012

Hogarth’s House: the story of the building and its residents over 300 years
an illustrated talk by Val Bott, using her research for the new displays at Hogarth’s House

20 February 2012

The Eragny Press of Lucien Pissarro 1894-1914
an illustrated talk about this private press in Stamford Brook, by Simon Shorvon, based upon his contribution to the recent exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum

19 March 2012

The Middlesex Porridge Pot boils Over! or, Fifteen Days in Brentford
an illustrated talk about the controversial and corrupt election at Brentford in 1802 by Christopher May of the Richmond Local History Society

16 April 2012

Johann Zoffany, artist and adventurer
an illustrated talk by Penelope Treadwell, his biographer and a former owner of his Strand on the Green house

21 May 2012
Annual General Meeting, when Journal 21 will be available to members