Lewes History Group

A Zoom Webinar

John Kay: Lewes in Living Memory

This will be self-assessed quiz along the same lines as last year’s Christmas Quiz, except that this time we shall be using photographs of the town taken between the 1940s and the 1980s, within the memory of many of our members. It is surprising how much Lewes has changed in that time.

Members will be emailed a free Zoom registration link in advance.

Non-members can buy a ticket (£4) at Ticketsource. The emailed ticket will include a Zoom registration link for the talk, to complete in advance.

The quiz will be followed – after a short gap – by our AGM at 8:45pm, which is for members only.

We will email a separate AGM Zoom link to members. The AGM will be held in the regular Zoom format, so we will all be able to see and hear each other.

To join this quiz, you need to
  1) register your intention in advance
  2) receive our confirmation email with a link to the talk
  3) click on that link to attend the talk 10 minutes before it starts

LHG Members can attend our talks for free. We will send members emails with a link to Zoom registration. Then please follow steps 1, 2, and 3 as above. 

Non-members can buy a ticket (£4) from TicketSource. The ticket will provide a link to Zoom registration. Then please follow steps 1, 2, and 3 as above. 

Please join the webinar at 7:20pm.

We would recommend a computer screen or an iPad as a minimum screen-size for viewing our webinars.

Our presenters will be speaking live, and you can ask questions by typing in the Q&A box in Zoom.

See the Talks page for a list of  forthcoming monthly events organised by the Lewes History Group.

A Coffee Time Zoom talk for Friends of Lewes Members

Diana Wilkins: How to use the 1921 census to explore your family history

Diana will look at easy ways to find out how your ancestors lived and worked using recently released information from the 1921 census.

She will give top tips on how to:

• Find your family in the census
• Explore the history of an area or an institution
• Find information for free

Diana is an art historian who supports communities to research their history through the census.

These talks are for members of the Friends of Lewes. If you would like to join FoL, and attend their talks, please find details on their Membership page. They send Zoom links to their members a few days before each talk, so please join in time! You can contact their Membership Secretary via email.

If you are looking for Christmas gifts, how about some books about Lewes, published by the Lewes History Group, or by the Friends of Lewes?

These would be ideal for a friend or family member who grew up here but who has moved away, or for a newcomer, who has yet to learn what a truly special place it is.

Lewes History Group has published two new books in the ‘Lewes Street Stories’ series: ‘Mill Road, South Malling’, by Chris Taylor, and ‘Lewes Street Stories: Chapel Hill’ written by Mary Benjamin, Meg Griffiths and Shân Rose.

The Friends of Lewes book list includes Marietta Van Dyck’s latest collection of Lewes drawings, Kim Clark’s The Twittens, and her update of Leslie Davey’s The Street Names of Lewes. The Friends are offering seasonal discounts to their members: see details.