We are delighted to announce that the BBC World Service have produced a radio programme as part of their ‘The Forum’ series on William Cobbett: Champion of Rural Workers (William Cobbett: Industrialization and its impact on England’s rural population). Our Chairman, Richard Thomas, and the Katharine Stearn (editor of our ‘Cobbett’s New Register’) took part in […]

2024 Annual General Meeting  Sun 12th May 2024 at 11am at Farnham Maltings and on ZOOM The Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held at 11:00am Sun 12th May 2024 at Farnham Maltings and on ZOOM.  After the formal AGM  there will be a presentation by one of our Joint Chairman Stewart Edge […]

Following the successful trip to Romsey and Mottisfont last year, The Cobbett Society is continuing its pre-Covid tradition of a ‘Rural Ride’ – a coach trip enlivened by Cobbett readings relevant to the journey. The trip destination for the trip is the National Trust house at Polesdon Lacey with a stop-off in Dorking on the […]

The next Annual Lecture will be at 8pm on Friday January 10th 2025.  This will be given by Max Cotton, a British television journalist who has worked as a reporter at BBC News in Westminster, and spent a year living entirely on what he produces on his small holding in Somerset. He used Cobbett’s Cottage […]