Monthly meeting September 2025

Naomi Clifford has been a committed historian since the age of eight, when a ‘Jackdaw’ folder of original documents about the slave trade fired up her imagination about individual people forgotten by history. To this day she likes nothing better than rooting out and giving voice to those whose lives have not yet been told.

Susanna Meredith was a Victorian philanthropist and social worker who established laundries for the employment of ex-convicts. The talk explores the history of laundry work as punishment and rehabilitation.