Past Meetings

The History of Geology Group

Past meetings of the History of Geology Group

HOGG online lunchtime talk: Geology and Hospital Planning: A Crimean War Map by Dr Beverly Bergman

Dr Beverly Bergman takes up the story of the 'Nightingale Hospital' that was mentioned briefly in the 2020 HOGG AGM talk on Brunel: the Geologist. This pioneering pre-fabricated building was designed by Brunel and shipped out to the Dardanelles. The talk will focus on the selection of the site for the hospital and the survey that was carried out by John Brunton, Brunel's engineer on the project.
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Edward Greenly and the Geology of Anglesey – a centenary meeting – CANCELLED

2020 marks one hundred years since the publication of the Geological Survey map of Anglesey. The memoir ‘The Geology of Anglesey’ was published the year before. Both these were the work of Edward Greenly, with the support of his very able wife, Annie, over the previous 25 years to map the geology of Anglesey in great detail. Greenly was the master of mapping at six inches to the mile, and he would produce a book on ‘Geological Surveying’ a decade later that would become a standard in how to do geological mapping.
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The genesis of geology in York and beyond

HOGG 25th Anniversary Meeting organised jointly with the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and York Museums Trust.
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Aspects of the History of Geology in Scotland and the North of England

This meeting will comprise a day of presentations (Thursday 11th July) followed by a field day (Friday 12th) featuring a walking tour, taking in sites linked with the history of geology around the city, as well as Hutton’s Section on Salisbury Crags.
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Aspects of the History of Coal and its Mining

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Collectors, Collections and the geology of southwest Britain

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Details of meetings and events previously held by the History of Geology Group.

HOGG online talks are listed  below

Conference/Seminar abstracts are published in a booklet.

Field meetings are accompanied with a field guide.  Some of these meetings booklets are available for download.

.September 20 – 23 2026  Tercentenary of James Hutton Field meeting: Journey to the South Alpine parts of Scotland in the year 1786: locations in search of proofs for ‘Theory of the Earth’.  Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.. Leader: Duncan Hawley.

August 29 2026  HOGG Wikipedia Workshop 2026

July 29 2026  Visit Meeting: The Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham – collections and archives behind the scenes

25 June 2026 HOGG Online: The Geological Lecture Room, Oxford: a fresh look at a well-known group portrait with Sue Newell (Associate Researcher, Oxford University Museum of Natural History).

20 May 2026  HOGG Online:  Andrew Crombie Ramsay and his Geological Lectures to Working Men: no compromise with Anne Barrett.

18 March 2026 HOGG Online: Andrija Mohorovičić: Croatian seismologist and the Crust–Mantle boundary discovery, with Dr John Milsom.

19 February 2026  HOGG Online: The Miners’ Stratigraphy and the 18th century roots of stratigraphic geology,   with Dr. Ru Smith.

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