Past Meetings

The History of Geology Group

Past meetings of the History of Geology Group

Open Meeting

This year’s programme – a wide-ranging one that should have something to suit most people’s tastes – comprises twelve papers which range in topic from geological maps, through Antarctic exploration and geophysics to fossil vertebrates, early geological collections and the birth of plate tectonics. This promises to be an interesting and stimulating day.
READ MORE

The Society of Arts and the Encouragement of Mineralogy and Geology 1754-1900

The programme consists of nine papers illustrating the wide range of the Society of Arts’ influence on the earth sciences. This foray into a little known area of history of geology promises to be interesting day and alert you to new research possibilities.
READ MORE

The Geologists of Lyme Regis

This summer, Lyme Regis Museum opens its new extension, the Mary Anning Wing, and to mark the occasion HOGG is holding a weekend meeting based at the museum to discuss the remarkable contribution made by geologists associated with Lyme Regis.
READ MORE

A Commemorative Meeting to Celebrate the Life and Work of Robert F. Symes OBE, 1939-2016

This one-day meeting has been convened under the auspices of Geological Society and History of Geology Group (HOGG) inassociation with the Geologists’ Association, The Ussher Society, The Russell Society and The Harrow and Hillingdon Geological Society.
READ MORE

The history of geology and mining in the Forest of Dean

Iron has been mined in the Forest of Dean since prehistoric times, and coal since at least Roman times, but how and when did an understanding of its geology evolve? This two-day field trip will explore the unique history of ‘free’ mining in the Forest of Dean, and how a gradual understanding of its geology facilitated exploration for these resources.
READ MORE

Past Meeting: Military Aspects of Engineering Geology: Past and Present

A whole-day meeting at the Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, is being convened under the auspices of the Society’s ‘History of Geology’ and ‘Engineering’ Groups, potentially also the Institution of Royal Engineers.
READ MORE
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.

Skip to content