HISTORICAL SOCIETY RETURNS TO VENUE-BASED LECTURES

THE Frome Society for Local Study’s lecture programme makes a welcome return to an ‘in person’ venue this month. 

Throughout the past two years – due to restrictions and lockdowns caused by the Covid virus – FSLS’s popular series of talks have mostly been held online. 

The next lecture, however, will be at the Assembly Rooms, located at the rear of Frome’s Memorial Theatre, where they were previously held pre-pandemic. 

This will be on Saturday 19th February with Colin Johns giving a talk on the history of Bradford-on-Avon and the Hall Estate. 

The following lecture, on Saturday 5th March, will see Julian Orbach revealing the story behind his revision of Nicholas Pevsner’s Guide to Wiltshire. 

The final lecture in the winter/spring programme – The Coaching Age in Somerset & Dorset by Roger Marsh – will take place after the FSLS’s AGM, on Saturday 19th March. 

All lectures begin at 2.30pm, although the AGM before the talk on the 19th, starts at 2pm. 

The lectures are free to FSLS members but are also open to non-members (at a cost of £3). 

FSLS Chairman, Sara Morris, said, “It will be good to return permanently to the Assembly Rooms with our lectures after what has been such a long time online. I am also looking forward to welcoming back those members without computers, who were therefore unable to enjoy the talks via Zoom.” 

The FSLS lecture programme begins again in the autumn, but before then, in July, the FSLS will hold its always well-attended annual event during the Frome Festival. 

This year will be a talk on esteemed eighteenth century Frome poet, Elizabeth Rowe, by American academic Carole Sargent. 

The Frome Society for Local Study was founded in 1958 and has been holding annual lecture programmes for its members ever since. 

For further information on any of these events, or becoming a member of FSLS, please contact info@fsls.org.uk

Picture: Julian Orbach who will be giving a lecture on 5th March for the Frome Society for Local Study.