Last updated: 8 March 2022
Thank you for agreeing to give a lecture to the BAHS; hopefully a date, time, subject and a 'snappy' title have been agreed and an image or three provided in advance. This information will be used to advertise the talk on the society's website and elsewhere.
Please note if you charge a fee or require travel expenses this should be agreed in advance. Additional information is provided below, but if you have any questions, please contact either the person who made the initial approach or the Lecture Programme Organiser.
You may wish to be kept up to date with our activities (if only to see how we advertise your lecture). If interested, please sign-up to our information emails at www.bahs.uk/information-emails.
Our meetings are normally held in Cley Village Hall, The Fairstead, Cley-next-the-Sea or the Harbour Room of the British Legion Club, High Street, Blakeney. Prior to the lecture, and hopefully well in advance, the venue alongside the date and time for your lecture will be publicised on the website. Please see www.bahs.uk/activities/events/current-events and follow the relevant link.
Both locations have car parks.
Lectures are normally held on the last Tuesday of the month between September and April and may be in the afternoon or evening.
Doors open at the venue 30 minutes before the publicised start time. If you could be there around the opening time that would be appreciated.
Prior to Covid, we typically got an audience of around forty to fifty members and visitors.
Since resuming in-person talks we have been running hybrid meetings on Zoom and in the meeting venue. Numbers are gradually returning to the hall. Meetings still attract the same number of attendees as before but split between being on Zoom or attending in-person.
Lectures should last around 50-60 minutes followed by a Q&A session. When possible, lectures should include elements relevant to North Norfolk and the area around the Glaven Valley. When a single lecture is given refreshments may be offered after the Q&A session. If there is more than one lecture then refreshments may be available after the first lecture.
If the lecture is held alongside the society's AGM, the lecture is likely to held before the AGM. Past AGM evenings have normally held the AGM prior to the lecture but the AGM held in 2021 was after the lecture and this seems to work better. Whichever format is chosen, this will be communicated to you beforehand.
If two lectures are being given then each lecture should last about 20-30 minutes. If three lectures are being given then each lecture should last about 15-20 minutes.
Following Covid, refreshments may be offered but this is determined by whether the venue allows the kitchen to be used, the availability of volunteers and any decision on serving refreshments made by the BAHS committee.
With the introduction of Zoom, the Society has been recording lectures subject to the agreement of the speaker. Meetings are automatically recorded but the recording will only be placed on the BAHS website with the speaker's permission.
Past recordings may be found at www.bahs.uk/activities/events/lecture-recordings/
Most speakers use our 'Windows 10 laptop computer, overhead projector and screen, speaker system and remote control/pointer. Please bring your digital presentation (even if you plan to use your own laptop-see below) on a USB stick or email it in advance to resources@bahs.uk.
Presentations may be in Microsoft Powerpoint or Adobe PDF format. If you wish to use something else please discuss this with us in advance.
We also have a 35mm slide projector and and an overhead projector available but we do need advance warning if you would like to use either of these.
You may wish to use your own laptop. If so, please agree this in advance. If using your own laptop then we recommend that you also bring your presentation on a USB stick or email to us in advance as mentioned above.
For Apple Mac users, we have an adaptor cable for connecting an Apple Mac's mini-port to our projectors' VGA socket.
For the purposes of Zoom we ask speakers to wear our lapel microphone which communicates wirelessly with our microphone system. It is very convenient and you will soon forget you're wearing it!
To allow us to publicise your lecture in the local press, the society's website and elsewhere the following should have been agreed at the time your booking was confirmed and provided to us as soon as possible.