North East Hampshire Historical
& Archaeological Society

John Wall returned to NEHHAS on January 25th to give his talk on The Archaeological Sites of Mexico. This well-attended review covered a number of the sites and was illustrated with many fine photos.

Our talk on February 22nd was on Roman Counterfeiting and was given by Hugh Williams, Roman coin specialist. Following closely on the introduction and use of coinage came the forgers producing copies of the official currency! At certain times it seemed that counterfeiting was accepted by the authorities as the supply of legitimate coins failed to satisfy demand. The talk was extremely well illustrated by excellent photos of example coins.

The Annual General Meeting was held on March 22nd at the Farnborough Community Centre and was well attended. After the reports from the Chairman, Treasurer and Director (Local Studies), the election of committee members commenced. One member of the committee asked to step down while the remaining five were prepared to stand for a further year. Two ordinary members were also invited to join the committee, bringing the total up to seven.
Following the 'business' of the AGM, some discussion followed on the planned activities for the remainder of the year, including the CBA Festival fortnight.

On Friday April 26th we enjoyed Pam Taylor's superbly illustrated talk on her recent visits to Greece. Her travels started in the Cyclades with the un-inhabited historic island of Delos which can only be reached by ferry from Mykonos. Next we were off to Athens followed by a tour of the Peloponnese peninsular including Argos, Sparta and then on to the most southerly point in Europe. Finally her tour came back across the spectacular new bridge linking the western end of the Peloponnese to the mainland.

Note: More detailed accounts of our recent Friday evening talks and other events, can be found in our latest NEWSLetter. Click here for details of how to get your copy.