During the coronavirus pandemic the Highgate Society ran a weekly programme of events delivered online. Recordings of many of these events are now available to view, together with recordings of some hybrid events held since live events restarted. To access a video click on the relevant title below. For a description of the event go to the Past Events page of this web site.
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Dolly Shepherd – the Edwardian Lady Parachutist 9th July 2025
Retrofitting Old Buildings – 11th June 2025 (a few minutes at the start of this talk are missing)
Lessons in Diplomacy – 14th May 2025
To sea or not to sea? – 16th April 2025
The History of English Perfumery – 12th March 2025
Betjeman’s debt to Highgate – 19th February 2025
Hunter Davies on ‘Letters to Margaret’ – 15th January 2025 (a few minutes at the start of this talk are missing)
Highgate Cemetery – the Proposals – 20th November 2024
Migrants: UK from 500 to 2024 – 16th October 2024
SAVE – its work in preserving our heritage – 18th September 2024
Longitude – 12th June 2024
Highgate New Town – The Place and its People – 17th April 2024
Travellers’ tales: Why visit Jordan? – 21st February 2024
Citizen of London: The story of Richard Whittington – 17th January 2024
Highgate Cemetery: Facing the future – 8th November 2023
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain – 11th October 2023
Seats of London – 20th September 2023
Firing London’s imagination: The Highgate Roman Kiln Project – 5th July 2023
Sathnam Sanghera in conversation – 31st May 2023
A perspective on sub-Saharan Africa – 29th March 2023
The newly completed England coast path – 8th February 2023
The Harington Scheme – past, present and future – 16th November 2022
Might drivers walk and cycle? – 12th October 2022
Camelbacks and shotguns – 12th September 2022
Embodied Carbon talk with Elspeth Clements and Dermot Barnes – 25th May 2022
The Reunion: Early days of Jacksons Lane
Kentish Town City Farm: past, present and future
Presenting the Highgate Society Planning Group
Heinz Henghes – Art and Internment in WWII
Painting the Ancient Land of Australia
The future of social enterprise in Uganda
John Drinkwater’s life in Highgate
Around the World in Less Than Forty Days
The Lure and the Lore of the Limerick
Jacksons Lane in Time of Covid
Theatre in the Time of Covid (a few minutes at the start of this talk are missing)
The History of Gin (a few minutes at the start of this talk are missing)
Travellers’ Tales: Japan (a few minutes at the start of this talk are missing)
Slavery, the American Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement
