Upcoming talks and events
Frittenden Historical Society’s season runs from October to April and meetings are held on the last Tuesday of those months (excepting December). We meet in Frittenden Memorial Hall and start promptly at 8pm, except for our new season opener in October when we offer a ‘welcome back’ with refreshments from 7pm.
Visitors are welcome to all talks at just £5 per visit. Membership from October to April is £15 per person.
Transport can be arranged within the village if required, please contact us if you need assistance.
Our new season leaflet can be downloaded below.
A Kiwi drops in
Tuesday 25th November (8pm start)
Geoff Piper will tell us the entertaining story of Spud, a NZ pilot who flew in the skies above the Weald in the Second World War.
Sir Edward Dering of Pluckley
Tuesday 27th January 2026 (8pm start)
You may know of the Dering Arms in Pluckley, and maybe even about Dering windows which feature in many houses in the village, but who was Sir Edward Dering? Kaye Sowden, an expert on Pluckley’s history, will guide us through the story of his extraordinary life.
Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
Tuesday 24th February (8pm start)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340 – 1400) was an English poet and author, bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat and member of parliament. He wrote many works of literature, but is best known for The Canterbury Tales. James Dickinson’s talk concentrates on the so-called marriage tales. Most famously that of the Wife of Bath but also the Merchant’s Tale, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale and the Franklin’s Tale.
Saint Eanswythe and other Kentish saints
Tuesday 31st March (8pm start)
Bones found hidden in the wall of the church of St Mary and St Eanswythe during the Reformation and rediscovered in the 1800s. were recently removed for carbon dating, and it was revealed they were those of St Eanswythe – one of the earliest English saints. Dr Andrew Richardson and Dr Lesley Hardy were part of the Finding Eanswythe Project and will tell us her story and those of other Kentish saints.
Annual General Meeting
Tuesday 28th April (8pm start)
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The 1930s Tithe War
Tuesday 28th April (after the AGM)
Few people know that the tithes, with their origins in medieval times, were still being collected in the interwar years. In the early 1930s before the country united against the Axis powers, a very different fight took place in Kent, against the tithe. Dr John Bulaitis will bring the forgotten story of ‘Operation Sock’ and the ‘Battle of the Ducks’ back to life.