Antiquarian Horological Society | The story of time

'Scottish Knocks: The Story of Scottish Turret Clock Manufacture', by Mark Crangle
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom

'The Dial Clocks of the Palace of Westminster', by Alex Jeffrey
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'The Pride of Telling Time: Iberian Clocks From the 14th to the 16th Century', by Víctor Pérez Álvarez
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'Frederick James Ritchie, his Electrosympathetic Clocks, and the ‘Edinburgh Ring’', by Edward Odell
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'The Condliff Family: Four Generations of Clockmakers – Their Lives and Business Discovered', by Darlah Thomas
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'The Technical Legacy of Thomas Mudge ', by Jonathan Betts
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'The Mechanical Inventions of Abraham Louis Breguet', by Andrew Crisford
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
This lecture was delivered in place of the previously advertised talk by Sibylle Gluch, which unavoidably had to be cancelled. Details not available owing to short notice.
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'Dismantling the ‘East School’: Edward East and the Trade in Clocks Between Makers in Seventeenth-Century London', by Richard Newton
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'Clockmaking and practical mathematics in the provinces of England and France, 1500–1800', by Anthony Turner
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'William Hogarth: Time's Artist', by Patricia Fara
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'Chronometry and Chronometers on British Voyages of Exploration, c.1815–1836', by Emily Akkermans
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'Jonathan Paine: "Inventor of the illuminating dials"', by James Nye
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
This lecture was delivered in place of the previously advertised talk by Rossella Baldi, which unavoidably had to be cancelled. Details not available owing to short notice.
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'Engine-Turning and the English Pocket Watch-Case Industry, 1800–Present', by Seth Kennedy
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'Chronometric Challenges: George Biddell Airy’s Greenwich Staff and Horology', by Daniel Belteki
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'British Clock Towers as Monuments of Memorialisation, 1836–Present', by Mike Bundock
Held online via Zoom
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'Keeping Time: a Short History of Clock and Watch Maintenance', by Jonathan Betts
Held at St Mary-at-Hill and online via Zoom
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'Synchronising Time in Austria: The Pneumatic Clocks of Carl Albert Mayrhofer', by Johannes Graf
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'About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks', by David Rooney
Held at 4 Lovat Lane and online via Zoom
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'The Jaquet-Droz Workshop and its Suppliers in the 18th Century', by Sandrine Girardier
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'Johann Antel: Revolutionising Time in Early-Twentieth Century Brno' by James Nye
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'Hills Brothers, Watchmakers, Jewellers and Postmaster: a Personal History' by Jonathan Hills
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'The Timex Formula: Joakim Lehmkuhl, Scientific Management and Timex watches', by Frode Weium
This lecture was postponed to a future date.

'The Jaquet-Droz Workshop and its Suppliers in the 18th Century' by Sandrine Girardier
This lecture was postponed to March 2021.

'The Art and Mystery of Watchmaking: a Detailed Account of the Making of a Watch, c.1650' by David Thompson
Held at St Mary-at-Hill, City of London

'The Amazing Aynsworth Thwaites' by Keith Scobie-Youngs
Held at St Mary-at-Hill, City of London

'Levellers and Latten Workers – Some Light Among the Lanterns on Lothbury' by Caitlin Doherty and James Nye
Held at St Margaret Lothbury, City of London

'Four Watches, Four Women: Research on Women in Horological Businesses in Britain 1800–1930' by Su Fullwood and Geoff Allnutt
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

'The Nature of Uniqueness Between Vintage and Modern Wristwatch Markets' by Andrew Hildreth
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

'Internal Clocks and the Human Perception of Time: History, Development, and Current Status' by John Wearden
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

'Capturing Time: Photography and the Measurement of Time in the 19th Century' by Geoff Belknap
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

‘Time before the Oscillator: Horology in the 13th Century Manuscripts of the Libros del Saber’ by Sebastian Whitestone
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

‘The Knibb Clocks of the University of St Andrews and the Origins of the Tic-Tac Escapement’ by John Redfern
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

‘Staking a Claim to "Practical Science": the Clockmakers Versus the Spectacle Makers in the Long 18th Century’ by Rebekah Higgitt
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

"The Lines, Which Are So Very Fine": John Harrison, William Hogarth and the Trouble With Drawing a Line of Longitude’ by Katy Barrett
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

‘How To Make an Atomic Clock’ by Helen Margolis
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

‘Berlin or Birmingham: Finding a Market for the Black Forest Clock’ by Richard Constable
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

'The Antikythera Mechanism and Mechanical Universes' by Professor Mike Edmunds
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

'Edward John Dent’s Glass Springs: a Historical and Artefactual Study' by Jenny Bulstrode
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

‘Casing Watches and Automata: The Goldworkers and Enamellers of Geneva’ by Julia Clarke
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

‘The Politics of Precision: Standard Time and Violent Protest, 1884–1914’, by David Rooney
Held at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Westminster

'The Making of the Modern Clock and Watch Dial, 1550-1770', by Jane Desborough
Held at Cannon Place, City of London

'Galileo, Huygens and the Invention of the Pendulum Clock' by Sebastian Whitestone
Held at Cannon Place, City of London

'Engine Turning and Horology: History, Machines and Techniques' by David Wood-Heath
Held at Cannon Place, City of London

'Metals for Horology: a History of the Brass and Related Industries' by Angus Patterson
Held at Cannon Place, City of London

'Sundials: History, Art, People and Science' by Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd
Held at Cannon Place, City of London

'Frogs, Frequencies and Forks: The Bulova Accutron and the Tuning Fork as a Time Standard' by Andrew Nahum
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'Insights into the Horological Trade in Georgian London: Evidence from Old Bailey Trials' by David Bryden
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'Exhibiting Horology Across the Channel: International Exhibitions in London and Paris 1850-1870' by Françoise Collanges
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'New Light on Chronometer-Makers and the Instrument Trades' by Gloria Clifton
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'Almost at a Single Glance: Visualisation of Historic Time in the Eighteenth Century' by Stephen Boyd Davis
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'Learning from the Artefact: the Marine Chronometers at Greenwich' by Jonathan Betts
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'The Speaking Clock in the History of Public Relations' by David Rooney
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'The Faking of English Watches' by David Penney
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

‘The Turret Clocks of Salisbury, Wells and Rye’ by Keith Scobie-Youngs
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

‘Observatory Time by Radio’ by David Read
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

‘Justin Vulliamy and the Swiss Community – Networking in 18th-century London’ by Roger Smith
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

‘The Time Ball at Greenwich’ by Douglas Bateman
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

‘Bahne Bonniksen and the karrusel watch revisited’ by Clare Woodward
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'Decimal Clocks and Ten-Day Weeks: the French Republican Calendar' by Matthew Shaw
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

‘James Short, telescope-maker, and his support for chronometer-maker John Harrison’ by Jim Bennett
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'Bankruptcy and insolvency in the English horological trade, 1720-1849' by David Bryden
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'Clocks for the Transits of Venus' by Matthew Read
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'A Good Time in Berlin - the remarkable clocks of Normal-Zeit' by James Nye
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'The Great Collectors: J. Pierpont Morgan' by David Thompson
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

Special Event - First meeting at Burlington House
Held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House

'George Graham, Watchmaker' by Rory McEvoy
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury

'The Life and Times of Edward East' by Oliver Cooke
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury

'The Great Knibb' by Andrew King
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury

'The Gretton Project' by Dennis Radage
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury

'The horological collector Revd. Henry Leonard Nelthropp' by David Thompson
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury

'Hope and Glory: a horological battle for survival, 1910-1945' by Philip Whyte and Richard Stenning
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury

'Ahasuerus Fromanteel and the early pendulum clock' by Rebecca Pohancenik
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury

'The Bowes Swan' by Matthew Read
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury

'Researching & writing 'Shaping the Day' by Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury

'William Edwards Miller' by David Thompson
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury

'The Great Clock of Westminster' by Chris McKay
Held at the Swedenborg Society, Bloomsbury