Our guest speaker was to have been Ridade Starsies, but she has had to postpone to the new year. Instead, the Earl of Essex has stepped in at the last minute to deliver a brief lecture on The History of the Gentleman's Boater Hat and its Place in Society.

We will be attempting to livestream the talk via YouTube, subject, as ever, to the pub’s wifi, which is quite poor (although we usually upload a better-quality video too). The link for that is https://youtu.be/GJROxfkos4o.