| Wed 22 Oct | ALHA AGM & talk Alan Freke Frank Simpson, Technical Artist 7.30 Baptist Hall, Keynsham | Venue |
| Thu 4 Dec | ALHA Executive Committee 7.30 Fielden Room, Village Hall, Westbury -on-Trym | Venue |
| Mon 6 Oct | Almondsbury LHS Talk Dr Ray Wilson Gloucester Docks, Past, Present & Future | Venue |
| Mon 3 Nov | Almondsbury LHS Talk Dr Alan Dodge The Life of an 18th Century Agricultural Labourer and his Family | Venue |
| Mon 1 Dec | Almondsbury LHS Talk Dr Steven Blake Saints, Serpents and the Seven Sacraments (English Mediaeval Church Fonts0 | Venue |
| Wed 22 Oct | Alveston History Society Talk Ron Sparrow Sir George White – the forgotten entrepreneur | Venue |
| Wed 26 Nov | Alveston History Society Talk John Thompson The History of Pantomime | Venue |
| 28 Jan 2009 | Alveston History Society Talk Dr Ray Wilson Mills of Wotton under Edge | Venue |
| 25 Feb 2009 | Alveston History Society Talk Ray Gallop The lost ports of the River Severn and the Bristol Channel | Venue |
| 25 Mar 2009 | Alveston History Society Talk Carolyn Williams The River Ran Red – ‘Down among the red men!’ | Venue |
| 22 Apr 2009 | Alveston History Society Talk Tony Cherry The Changing Face of Thornbury High Street | Venue |
| 27 May 2009 | Alveston History Society Talk Averil Kear Early Dean:- a history of the Forest of Dean up to the Industrial Revolution AGM at 7.00 pm | Venue |
| Fri 10 Oct | Banwell Society of Archaeology Talk Ken Andrews History of Bristol City Docks | Venue |
| Fri 14 Nov | Banwell Society of Archaeology Talk Mike Rowland The Little Giant - Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Venue |
| Fri 12 Dec | Banwell Society of Archaeology Talk Pat Hase Victorian Pleasures & Pastimes | Venue |
| 9 Jan 2009 | Banwell Society of Archaeology Talk Elizabeth Wells Windmill Hill - Churchill | Venue |
| 13 Feb 2009 | Banwell Society of Archaeology Talk Andy Littlejones Carthusians on Mendip - Chrtreuse to Charterhouse | Venue |
| 13 Mar 2009 | Banwell Society of Archaeology Talk James Bond The Making of the Landscape of West Mendip Roger Goslong 01454 883607 | Venue |
| 17 Apr 2009 | Banwell Society of Archaeology Talk Bob Porton Wells - the Smallest City in a New Light | Venue |
| 8 May 2009 | Banwell Society of Archaeology Anniversary Night - Members | Venue |
| 12 Jun 2009 | Banwell Society of Archaeology AGM & Talk Mike Rowland Lipsticck on a Gorilla | Venue |
| 10 Jul 2009 | Banwell Society of Archaeology Talk Lawrence Price Medieval Churches of the West Country | Venue |
| Thu 9 Oct | Bath & Camerton Archaeological Society Lecture Dr Joshua Pollard New Light on Stonehenge: the work of the Stonehenge Riverside Project | Venue |
| Thu 13 Nov | Bath & Camerton Archaeological Society Lecture Dr Duncan McAndrew The Wrong Castle | Venue |
| Thu 11 Dec | Bath & Camerton Archaeological Society Lecture Dr George Nash In the round or in the long: an excavation of a Neolithic chambered tomb in Herefordshire’ | Venue |
| 8 Jan 2009 | Bath & Camerton Archaeological Society Lecture Dr P Webster La Graufesenque to Blacklands: the making and marketing of Roman Samian ware | Venue |
| 12 Feb 2009 | Bath & Camerton Archaeological Society Lecture J Lawes Excavations at Upper Row Farm & other society projects | Venue |
| Thu 30 Oct | Brislington Conservation & HS Talk Andrew Young Excavation of Holly Bush site | Venue |
| Thu 27 Nov | Brislington Conservation & HS Talk John Penny War-time Radio Broadcasting | Venue |
| 26 Feb 2009 | Brislington Conservation & HS Talk Brian Amesbury Where did you get that surname? | Venue |
| 26 Mar 2009 | Brislington Conservation & HS Talk Mike Hooper Images of Bristol, 1850 - 1920s | Venue |
| Wed 8 Oct | Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society Talk John Drinkwater Down among the Dead men - let's talk of graves and those who in them lie NB Changed Venue St Michael & All Angels, 160a Gloucester Rd | Venue |
| Wed 22 Oct | Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society Talk Colin Budge Medieval Deer Parks NB Changed Venue St Michael & All Angels, 160a Gloucester Rd | Venue |
| Wed 5 Nov | Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society Talk Mike Gwyther Hills of Fire & Iron: the industrial archaeology of Methyr Tydfil NB Changed Venue St Michael & All Angels, 160a Gloucester Rd | Venue |
| Wed 19 Nov | Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society Talk Mike Hooper The History of Knowle & Totterdown NB Changed Venue St Michael & All Angels, 160a Gloucester Rd | Venue |
| Wed 3 Dec | Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society Talk Dr John Wroughton The Battle of Lansdown | Venue |
| Wed 17 Dec | Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society Xmas party, Quiz & Booksale | Venue |
| 7 Jan 2009 | Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society Talk Stuart Burroughs The Museum of Bath at Work | Venue |
| 21 Jan 2009 | Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society Talk Barry Williamson The Building of New Wardour Castle | Venue |
| 4 Feb 2009 | Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society Lesl;ie Grinsell Memorial Lecture Hazel Riley Standing at the Gate of the West: the Quantock Hills in Prehistory | Venue |
| 18 Feb 2009 | Bristol & Avon Archaeological Society Talk Linda Hall 16th & 17th Century Interiors: a look at decoration & staircase design | Venue |
| Tue 21 Oct | Bristol & Avon Family HS Visit to The National Archive see NOTICES & OPPORTUNITIES | Venue |
| Mon 27 Oct | Bristol & Avon Family HS, Bath Talk Dr Michael Rowe The Pulteney Family | Venue |
| Mon 13 Oct | Bristol & Avon Family HS, Bristol Talk Roger Angerson Quakers in Bristol | Venue |
| Mon 10 Nov | Bristol & Avon Family HS, Bristol Talk David Cheeseley History of Barton Hill | Venue |
| Sat 11 Oct | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Walk: St Michael's Hill & Kingsdown Prof Roger Leech Booking essential: John Loosely, Stonehatch, Oakridge Lynch, Stroud GL6 7NR | Venue |
| Mon 27 Oct | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Bristol) Talk Simon Cox Broadmead through time | Venue |
| Mon 24 Nov | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Bristol) Talk David Smith The Murder of Edward II | Venue |
| 26 Jan 2009 | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Bristol) Talk Prof Tim Mowl In the Footsteps of Betjeman – Discoveries in the south-west landscape | Venue |
| 23 Feb 2009 | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Bristol) Talk Madge Dresser Bristol’s Jews of the 18th and 19th Centuries | Venue |
| 23 Mar 2009 | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Bristol) Talk Rhian Tritton SS Great Britain: past present and future | Venue |
| Wed 15 Oct | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Gloucester) Talk Rev John Stevinson Winchcombe Abbey Revised | Venue |
| Wed 19 Nov | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Gloucester) Talk Prof Tim Darvill Wiggold: A Window on Gloucestershire Prehistory | Venue |
| 21 Jan 2009 | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Gloucester) Talk Dr Steven Blake Dissenters' Boxes | Venue |
| 18 Feb 2009 | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Gloucester) Talk Paul Nichols Iron Age Discoveries at Bourton-on-the-Water | Venue |
| 18 Mar 2009 | Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Gloucester) Talk Malcolm Watkins The Siege of Gloucester | Venue |
| Thu 9 Oct | Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society, Kingswood Talk Sandy Buchanan From Field to Factory (hemp and flax) | Venue |
| Thu 23 Oct | Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society, Kingswood Talk John Penny Putting Bath and Bristol in the picture (TV) | Venue |
| Tue 11 Nov | Bristol Record Society AGM and launch of Volume 60 Probate Inventories III Dr Jonathan Barry 5.00 pm for 5.30 Council House Bristol | Venue |
| Sat 25 Oct | Bristol Threatened History Society Symposium Bristol's Early Industries | Venue |
| Wed 12 Nov | Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery Talk Madge Dresser & Peter Fleming Ethnic Minorities in Bristol from 1000 AD 7.30 - 9.00 pm Free | Venue |
| 11 Feb 2009 | Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery Monica Jones Memorial Lecture Dr Alice Roberts Bones of Contention Pow ell Lecture Theatre, Wills Physics Laboratory 7.30 - 9.00 pm Free | Venue |
| Sat 1 Nov | British Association for Local History Local History Day Means & Materials in Local History Ferens Art Gallery, Hull from 10.30. £10 mail@helengood.com | Venue |
| Thu 30 Oct | Clevedon & District Archaeological Society Talk Professor Robert Fowler Myths & Cults on the Acropolis of Athens | Venue |
| Thu 27 Nov | Clevedon & District Archaeological Society Talk Dr George Nash Gods, graves a& symbols of death | Venue |
| 29 Jan 2009 | Clevedon & District Archaeological Society Talk Philip Rowe "We shall fight them on the beaches" | Venue |
| 26 Feb 2009 | Clevedon & District Archaeological Society Talk Steve Minnit Making money in Somerset - coin hoards from the Iron Age onwards | Venue |
| 26 Mar 2009 | Clevedon & District Archaeological Society AGM & Buffet Supper | Venue |
| Thu 16 Oct | Clevedon Civic Society Group Review | Venue |
| Thu 20 Nov | Clevedon Civic Society Talk Jane Lilly Regency Old Street | Venue |
| Tue 14 Oct | Clutton History Group Talk Felicity Medcalf Newton Park Estate | Venue |
| Tue 9 Dec | Clutton History Group Talk Jean Routley The Fascination of Victorian Photographs | Venue |
| 13 Jan 2009 | Clutton History Group Talk Colin Maggs Bristol to Radstock via Clutton, a railway journey | Venue |
| 10 Feb 2009 | Clutton History Group Talk Dr Alan Dodge The Life of the 18th Century Agricultural Labourer and his family | Venue |
| 10 Mar 2009 | Clutton History Group Talk Ray Gallop & Ken Griffiths Fussells Ironworks at Mells, Somerset | Venue |
| 14 Apr 2009 | Clutton History Group Talk Ceri Lambdin The Lost Roman Villa of Paulton | Venue |
| 12 May 2009 | Clutton History Group AGM & Talk Michael Tabb William & Caroline Herschel in Bath | Venue |
| Wed 15 Oct | Congresbury History Group AGM & Talk Vince Russett A Furtle in the Woods, & elsewhere | Venue |
| Wed 19 Nov | Congresbury History Group Talk Mike Aston The Early Monasteries & North Somerset | Venue |
| Wed 17 Dec | Congresbury History Group Christmas Social 8.00 pm Old Refectory | Venue |
| Wed 15 Oct | Frampton Cotterell & District LHGp Talk Ian Chard What did you do in the War, Daddy? | Venue |
| Wed 19 Nov | Frampton Cotterell & District LHGp Talk John Drinkwater The Romans in the West of England | Venue |
| Wed 10 Dec | Frampton Cotterell & District LHGp Talk Prof Ronald Hutton The Civil War | Venue |
| 21 Jan 2009 | Frampton Cotterell & District LHGp Talk Lynda Hall Vernacular Buildings of South Gloucestershire | Venue |
| 18 Feb 2009 | Frampton Cotterell & District LHGp Talk Anton Bantock The Smythes of Long Ashton and Mays Hill | Venue |
| 18 Mar 2009 | Frampton Cotterell & District LHGp Talk Railways, Stations and Halts of South Gloucestershire | Venue |
| Thu 9 Oct | Frenchay Tuckett Society Talk John Bartlett Manor Park Hospital | Venue |
| Thu 13 Nov | Frenchay Tuckett Society Talk Richard Randall W G Grace | Venue |
| 8 Jan 2009 | Frenchay Tuckett Society Talk George Crates The 13 Arches of Esatville 2 - 5 at Sir Thomas Rich’s School, Longlevens, Gloucester £5 01285 760460 john@loosleyj.freeserve.co.uk | Venue |
| Sun 5 Oct | Friends of Winterbourne Barn Orchard Harvest Day 10.30-3.30 | Venue |
| Sat 4 Oct | Gloucestershire Rural Community Council Local History Afternoon Poets and Writers in Gloucestershire 2 - 5 at Sir Thomas Rich’s School, Longlevens, Gloucester £5 01285 760460 john@loosleyj.freeserve.co.uk | Venue |
| Wed 29 Oct | Harptrees History Society Talk Alan Dodge Life of Eighteenth Century Agricultural Labourer and Family | Venue |
| Wed 26 Nov | Harptrees History Society Talk Prof Simon Haslett The Tidal Wave of 1607 | Venue |
| Fri 5 Dec | Harptrees History Society Presentation of photographs of the Harptrees from the Society’s archives, with Ploughman’s supper | Venue |
| 28 Jan 2009 | Harptrees History Society Talk Pip Osborne Green Ore, More than a Pub | Venue |
| Mon 20 Oct | Keynsham & Saltford LHS Talk Chris Biggs The Brabazon | Venue |
| Mon 17 Nov | Keynsham & Saltford LHS Talk Trvor Bowen Nailsea Glass | Venue |
| Mon 15 Dec | Keynsham & Saltford LHS Talk Jonathan Holt Somerset Follies | Venue |
| 19 Jan 2009 | Keynsham & Saltford LHS Talk Tim Ryan History of Aust Ferries | Venue |
| Tue 7 Oct | Kingswood History Society Talk Tim Bowly Bristol Ships of the 15th Century | Venue |
| Tue 4 Nov | Kingswood History Society Talk Mike Hooper Broadmead before the Shops | Venue |
| Mon 20 Oct | Marshfield & District LHS Talk Terry Chivers SS Great Britain & its replica engine | Venue |
| Mon 17 Nov | Marshfield & District LHS Talk Jane Tozer Pen & Quill Medieval records | Venue |
| Mon 15 Dec | Marshfield & District LHS Talk with mulled wine & mince pies Dr John Wroughton An Explorer's Guide to Battle of Lansdowne | Venue |
| 19 Jan 2009 | Marshfield & District LHS Talk Tim Bowly Bristol ships of the 15th Century | Venue |
| 16 Feb 2009 | Marshfield & District LHS Talk Jean Routley Victorian Photographs | Venue |
| 16 Mar 2009 | Marshfield & District LHS Illustrated Talk Jackie Hearing Jane Austen in Bath | Venue |
| 20 Apr 2009 | Marshfield & District LHS Talk R C Gallop The Coaching Era and before | Venue |
| 18 May 2009 | Marshfield & District LHS AGM & Talk Elizabeth Devon Avon & Bybrook River's history | Venue |
| Fri 7 Nov | Mendip Society Wells Talk Anne Crawford Wells Cathedral Archives | Venue |
| Thu 20 Nov | Mendip Society Winscombe Talk Mike Chipperfield The Decoy City: creating Bristol on Blackdown | Venue |
| Mon 13 Oct | Nailsea & District LHS AGM & Talk Dr Steve Poole Rough Justice in a Muddy Field - the Kenn Murders | Venue |
| Mon 10 Nov | Nailsea & District LHS Talk Anton Bantock The Gore Langtons of Newton Park and Barrow Court 10 - 4.30 Chapel Lecture Theatre, St Matthias Campus, University of the West of England, Fishponds, Bristol, £12 Mike Ponsford 12 Seymour Road, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 9HR m.ponsford@ipresent.co.uk 0117-9858109 | Venue |
| Mon 8 Dec | Nailsea & District LHS Talk Pat Hase Victorian Servants | Venue |
| Thu 16 Oct | Paulton History Group Talk Dennis Chedgy George Washington & the Writhlington Connection | Venue |
| Thu 20 Nov | Paulton History Group Talk Ceri Lambdin The Lost Roman Villa of Paulton | Venue |
| 15 Jan 2009 | Paulton History Group Talk Mike Horler My Life as a Wheelwright | Venue |
| 19 Feb 2009 | Paulton History Group Talk Harry Wright Let there be Light; a History of Electricity | Venue |
| 19 Mar 2009 | Paulton History Group Talk Roy Gallop & Ken Griffiths The Lost Ports of the Severn | Venue |
| 16 Apr 2009 | Paulton History Group Talk Roger Angerson William Beckford of Bath | Venue |
| 21 May 2009 | Paulton History Group Talk Geraldine Marchand Watch Your Step, Fashions in Footwear | Venue |
| 18 Jun 2009 | Paulton History Group Talk Bernard Tapp Egypt the Dawn of Civilisation | Venue |
| 16 Jul 2009 | Paulton History Group AGM & Talk Mike Hooper Broadmead Continued | Venue |
| Wed 22 Oct | South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group Talk | Venue |
| Thu 27 Nov | South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group Talk Steve Grudgings Welsh Pits in the 1970s | Venue |
| Sat 27 Dec | South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group Visit to Wiltshire & Swindon Archives 9.30 -4.30 at the Barn 01454 777075 | Venue |
| Sat 15 Nov | Stoke Bishop & Sneyd Park LHG 20 Year Anniversary Celebration | Venue |
| Thu 9 Oct | Stoke Lodge History & Archaeology Group Visit Lambeth Palace NB early start Stoke Rd 7.45, Stoke Lodge 8.00 | Venue |
| Sat 1 Nov | Stoke Lodge History & Archaeology Group Visit Slatram House, Devon | Venue |
| Sat 13 Dec | Stoke Lodge History & Archaeology Group Visit Fishbourne Roman Palace & Chichester | Venue |
| Tue 14 Oct | Thornbury LH & Arch Soc AGM & “Clarkson” (film) with Wine & cheese | Venue |
| Tue 11 Nov | Thornbury LH & Arch Soc Talk Ian Mack Dark Satanic Mills: Employment in the 1830s | Venue |
| Tue 9 Dec | Thornbury LH & Arch Soc Talk Paul Wildgoose Thornbury Walls and Boundaries | Venue |
| 10 Feb 2009 | Thornbury LH & Arch Soc Talk Linda Hall Gloucestershire Farm Buildings | Venue |
| 10 Mar 2009 | Thornbury LH & Arch Soc Talk Roy Palmer Gloucestershire Ballads | Venue |
| 14 Apr 2009 | Thornbury LH & Arch Soc Talk The Development at Broadmead Details to be confirmed | Venue |
| Fri 17 Oct | Westbury-on-Trym Society (LHS) Dramatic presentation Kim Hicks All Aboard the SS Great Briatin for Australia | Venue |
| Mon 24 Nov | Westbury-on-Trym Society (LHS) Talk, with mince pies & punch Keith Sheather From Boudicca to Woolton Pie: problems & pitfalls of filming history | Venue |
| 30 Mar 2009 | Westbury-on-Trym Society (LHS) Talk and films John Penny Old Bristol | Venue |
| Mon 20 Oct | Weston LHS Talk Terry Merrett-Smith Ration Books to Rock & Roll | Venue |
| Mon 17 Nov | Weston LHS Talk Dr David Lloyd A Dog's Life | Venue |
| Tue 14 Oct | Weston-super-Mare Archaeological & NHS Talk Les Davies Mendip through the Time Tunnel- a story of an evolving landscape | Venue |
| Tue 11 Nov | Weston-super-Mare Archaeological & NHS Talk Peter Lansdown The Mary Rose | Venue |
| Tue 9 Dec | Weston-super-Mare Archaeological & NHS Talk, with refreshments and raffle Roy Rice The Bilbie Family, Bell founders & Clock Makers of Chew Stoke NB 7.00 pm start | Venue |
| 13 Jan 2009 | Weston-super-Mare Archaeological & NHS Talk John Smith The Roman Army - fact and fiction | Venue |
| 10 Feb 2009 | Weston-super-Mare Archaeological & NHS Talk Louis Groome Symbolism and Imagery in Churches | Venue |
| 10 Mar 2009 | Weston-super-Mare Archaeological & NHS Talk Robin Pryerch The Buzzards of North Somerset | Venue |
| 14 Apr 2009 | Weston-super-Mare Archaeological & NHS Talk Chris Richards North Somerset Museum Service | Venue |
| 12 May 2009 | Weston-super-Mare Archaeological & NHS AGM & Talk James Bond Monastic Landscapes and Estates NB Start at 7.00 | Venue |
| Fri 31 Oct | Whitchurch LHS Talk, with slides & film Reg Jackson Excavations At Inyn’s Court | Venue |
| Fri 28 Nov | Whitchurch LHS Talk Brian Amesbury John Cabot And The Matthew | Venue |
| 27 Feb 2009 | Whitchurch LHS Talk David Cheeseley Railways Of East Bristol | Venue |
| 27 Mar 2009 | Whitchurch LHS Talk George Crates The Amish Of Pennsylvania, Gettysburg Battlesite And The Shenandoah Valley | Venue |
| 24 Apr 2009 | Whitchurch LHS AGM & Programme meeting | Venue |
| Thu 6 Nov | Wick & Abson LHG Talk Mike Horler The Life of Michael, country boy, from 1940 | Venue |
| Thu 4 Dec | Wick & Abson LHG Christmas evening with wine & nibbles | Venue |
| 5 Feb 2009 | Wick & Abson LHG Talk John Penny Georgian & Regency times in St Paul's, Bristol | Venue |
| 5 Mar 2009 | Wick & Abson LHG Talk Cliff White Behind the Scenes of the Antiques Road Show | Venue |
| Thu 2 Apr | Wick & Abson LHG Talk Mike Hooper Bedminster Slums and clearance in the 1930s | Venue |
| Thu 7 May | Wick & Abson LHG Talk Brian Amesbury Tasmania, including the penal history | Venue |
| Thu 4 Jun | Wick & Abson LHG Talk Alan Freke The Bells of Frenchay church | Venue |
| Thu 2 Jul | Wick & Abson LHG AGM, Wine & Cheese | Venue |
| Thu 9 Oct | Widcombe & Lyncombe History Society Members' research on Old Holloway | Venue |
| Tue 7 Oct | Yatton LHS Talk Les Davies Mendip through the Time Tunnel | Venue |
| Tue 11 Nov | Yatton LHS Talk D Smith American in World War II Bristol | Venue |
| Tue 6 Jan | Yatton LHS Talk J C Howley Weston-super-Mare when it was a village | Venue |
| Tue 3 Mar | Yatton LHS Talk David Smith Attics & Cellars I have known | Venue |