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  • October 2025

  • Thu 9
    9 October:7:45 pm - 9:30 pm

    Angiosperms: pollen, evolution and ecosystems

    Oaklands College Sapsed Room (SR), Oaklands College, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    Talk by Dr Luke Mander, Senior Lecturer, The Open University Abstract Luke’s works with both living plants and material from the plant fossil record, which represents a vast archive of […]

  • November 2025

  • Thu 13
    13 November:7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

    The Onset of Modern-Style Plate Tectonic

    Zoom Talk

    Talk by Professor Craig Storey, University of Portsmouth Abstract Since the 1960s we have accepted the plate tectonic paradigm as being central to how our planet operates at the present […]

  • December 2025

  • Thu 11
    11 December:7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

    The value & potential of the UK’s dinosaur track sites

    Zoom Talk

    Talk by Richard Butler, Professor of Palaeobiology, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham Abstract: Dinosaur tracks provide important data on the distribution of dinosaurs through time and […]

  • January 2026

  • Thu 8
    8 January 2026:7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    Critical minerals from geology to circular economy: a matter of national security

    over Zoom

    talk given by Associate Professor Kathryn Moore, University of Exeter

  • February 2026

  • Thu 12
    12 February 2026:7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    The end-Triassic mass extinction and its aftermath

    over Zoom

    talk given by Professor Paul WIgnall, University of Leeds

  • Sat 14
    14 February 2026:10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Little Heath Geoconservation

    Little Heath, Potten End Potten End, United Kingdom

    Annual vegetation clearance

  • March 2026

  • Thu 12
    12 March 2026:7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    AGM

    Redbourne Parish Centre The Park, Redbourne, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    followed by refreshments and launch of the The Hertfordshire 50th anniversary book - Mike Lambert & Nick Pierpoint

  • Sat 21
    21 March 2026:8:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Joint trip Ver Valley Society/ HGS

    TBD

  • Sun 29
    29 March 2026:10:00 am - 4:30 pm

    The Ice-pushed chalk of the Chiltern escarpment between Barkway and Hendon

    Silver Ball Transport Café Reed, Royston London Road, Royston, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    Joint trip with AGS Meeting at 10 am at Silver Ball Transport Cafe on A10 at Reed. Finishing around 4:30 pm. Pub lunch will be arranged.

  • April 2026

  • Thu 9
    9 April 2026:7:45 pm - 9:45 pm

    49th Percy Evans Lecture: The Geology of the Lower Chess Valley & where does all that water go?

    Redbourne Parish Centre The Park, Redbourne, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    given by Dr. Haydon Bailey, HGS Chairman   

  • May 2026

  • Thu 14
    14 May 2026:7:45 pm - 9:45 pm

    Geology of Stonehenge and the bluestone controversy

    Redbourne Parish Centre The Park, Redbourne, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    talk given by Prof. Peter Worsley, Emeritus Professor of Quaternary Geology, University of Reading

  • June 2026

  • Thu 11
    11 June 2026:7:45 pm - 9:45 pm

    The Chalk Sea Ecosystem Project

    Redbourne Parish Centre The Park, Redbourne, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    talk given by Dr James Witts, Senior Post Doctoral Researcher, Natural History Museum London

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