Recent London Lectures
January 2021
'Johann Antel: Revolutionising Time in Early-Twentieth Century Brno' by James Nye
AHS members can watch a recording of this lecture here.November 2020
'Hills Brothers, Watchmakers, Jewellers and Postmaster: a Personal History' by Jonathan Hills
AHS members and non-members can watch a recording of this lecture here.September 2020
'The Timex Formula: Joakim Lehmkuhl, Scientific Management and Timex watches', by Frode Weium
This lecture was postponed to a future date.
July 2020
'The Jaquet-Droz Workshop and its Suppliers in the 18th Century' by Sandrine Girardier
This lecture was postponed to March 2021.March 2020
January 2020
'The Amazing Aynsworth Thwaites' by Keith Scobie-Youngs
November 2019
'Levellers and Latten Workers – Some Light Among the Lanterns on Lothbury' by Caitlin Doherty and James Nye
September 2019
'Four Watches, Four Women: Research on Women in Horological Businesses in Britain 1800–1930' by Su Fullwood and Geoff Allnutt
July 2019
'The Nature of Uniqueness Between Vintage and Modern Wristwatch Markets' by Andrew Hildreth
March 2019
January 2019
November 2018
‘Time before the Oscillator: Horology in the 13th Century Manuscripts of the Libros del Saber’ by Sebastian Whitestone
September 2018
July 2018
March 2018
January 2018
‘How To Make an Atomic Clock’ by Helen Margolis
November 2017
‘Berlin or Birmingham: Finding a Market for the Black Forest Clock’ by Richard Constable
September 2017
'The Antikythera Mechanism and Mechanical Universes' by Professor Mike Edmunds
July 2017
'Edward John Dent’s Glass Springs: a Historical and Artefactual Study' by Jenny Bulstrode
March 2017
January 2017
November 2016
'The Making of the Modern Clock and Watch Dial, 1550-1770', by Jane Desborough
September 2016
'Galileo, Huygens and the Invention of the Pendulum Clock' by Sebastian Whitestone
July 2016
'Engine Turning and Horology: History, Machines and Techniques' by David Wood-Heath
March 2016
'Metals for Horology: a History of the Brass and Related Industries' by Angus Patterson
January 2016
'Sundials: History, Art, People and Science' by Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd
November 2015
September 2015
July 2015
March 2015
'New Light on Chronometer-Makers and the Instrument Trades' by Gloria Clifton
January 2015
'Almost at a Single Glance: Visualisation of Historic Time in the Eighteenth Century' by Stephen Boyd Davis
November 2014
'Learning from the Artefact: the Marine Chronometers at Greenwich' by Jonathan Betts
September 2014
'The Speaking Clock in the History of Public Relations' by David Rooney
July 2014
'The Faking of English Watches' by David Penney
March 2014
‘The Turret Clocks of Salisbury, Wells and Rye’ by Keith Scobie-Youngs
January 2014
‘Observatory Time by Radio’ by David Read
November 2013
September 2013
‘The Time Ball at Greenwich’ by Douglas Bateman
July 2013
‘Bahne Bonniksen and the karrusel watch revisited’ by Clare Woodward
May 2013
January 2013
November 2012
September 2012
'Clocks for the Transits of Venus' by Matthew Read
July 2012
March 2012
'The Great Collectors: J. Pierpont Morgan' by David Thompson
November 2011
'George Graham, Watchmaker' by Rory McEvoy
September 2011
'The Life and Times of Edward East' by Oliver Cooke
July 2011
'The Great Knibb' by Andrew King
March 2011
'The Gretton Project' by Dennis Radage
January 2011
'The horological collector Revd. Henry Leonard Nelthropp' by David Thompson
November 2010
'Hope and Glory: a horological battle for survival, 1910-1945' by Philip Whyte and Richard Stenning
September 2010
'Ahasuerus Fromanteel and the early pendulum clock' by Rebecca Pohancenik
July 2010
'The Bowes Swan' by Matthew Read
March 2010
'Researching & writing 'Shaping the Day' by Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift
January 2010
'William Edwards Miller' by David Thompson
November 2009
'The Great Clock of Westminster' by Chris McKay