Current SIAH news

Wednesday 29^th October 2025 at 10.00 am on Zoom: Kevin Wooldridge, The interesting history of Halesworth cemetery and its people (1855-19).

Saturday 8^th November 2025 at 2.00 pm at Elmswell: Dr Shalona Klazow, Medieval pilgrimages to the chapel shrine of Our Lady of Woolpit.  [+council].

Saturday 22^nd November 2025 at 2.00 pm on Zoom: Ten-minute Talks.

Saturday 13^th December 2025 2.00 pm at Elmswell: Paul Drury, The medieval floor tiles of East Anglia.

Saturday 10^th January 2026 at 2.00 pm at Elmswell: Denise Parkinson, Trist’s Flood: an eyewitness account of the 1953 great sea flood in rural Suffolk [+council].

Wednesday 21^st January 2026 at 10.00 am on Zoom: Dr Francis Young, Troublesome Friars: The Franciscans in and out of Bury St Edmunds 1233-1538.

Saturday 14^th February 2026 at 2.00 pm at Elmswell: Dr Tristan Carter, Freston: Excavating Suffolk’s oldest sacred landscape.

Saturday 28^th February 2026 at 2.00 pm on Zoom: Dr Nick Amor, In the footsteps of David Dymond - researching and writing history.

Saturday 14^th March 2026 at 2.00 pm at Elmswell, Dr M J Walker, A Hard and Grievous Battle; the siege of Haughley castle and the battle of Fornham in 1173.

The Historic Towns Trust has published jointly with the SIAH a new historical map of Ipswich. More information and purchasing details are at https://www.historictownstrust.uk/post/ipswich-a-new-map-of-england-s-earliest-town .

The SIAH AGM 2025 papers can be downloaded here:

SIAH_2025-03-22__Accounts_signed_for_the_year_ended_31.12.2024.pdf

SIAH_Officers_Reports_AGM_2025.pdf