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Lectures & Events

Sandwich History Society holds talks or lectures throughout the year.

Guildhall Museum Guildhall Museum

Future Lectures

Thursday, 13th February 2025

Dr. Martin Watts  (Academic and Local Historian) 

‘Richborough the Secret Port in World War One’

Thursday, 13th March 2025

Professor Alan Stewart (Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University)

‘Roger Manwood and the Strangers of Elizabethan Sandwich’

Thursday, 14th April 2025

Wayne Perkins ACIfA (Archaeologist, author and authority on historic graffiti in buildings)

‘Historic Graffiti in Medieval Buildings in and around Sandwich’

Thursday, 22nd May 2025

Martin Heard (Independent Art Historian)

‘JMW Turner and John Constable’ (celebrating Joseph Mallord William Turner RA on the 250th Anniversary of his birth in 1775 in comparison with his contemporary John Constable.) This lecture will be held in the Delf Room at the Guildhall jointly with The Arts Society, Sandwich. Costs for non-members will be £5.

Please click on PDF below to download our latest programme for 2024-25 - note there are some changes

2024-25 Programme File Uploaded: 4 February 2025 1 MB