Meetings & exhibitions
Events & AGMs
The highlight of the Society year is our Annual General Meeting — a weekend of displays, talks and good company. While the Society is dormant, any forthcoming events are subject to change; the gatherings below are a record of past years.
Coming up
Annual General Meeting
- When
- Date to be confirmed
- Where
- Venue to be confirmed
Displays, talks, identification and friendly company. All members welcome.
Register interestA talk on buttonhooks
- When
- November 2026
- Where
- St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Paul Bigsby continues to give talks on buttonhooks on behalf of the Society. All welcome.
The Society has held an annual exhibition for over forty years, in museums across Great Britain, alongside its AGM weekend. The galleries below collect photographs from many of these gatherings. A related article, Buttonhooks & early photography, grew out of an exhibition the Society reviewed.
Past exhibitions & gatherings
- 2018 AGM weekend, NEC Birmingham
- 2017 Swindon weekend
- 2016 AGM, York
- 2013 33rd Annual Exhibition, Buxton
- 2012 Exhibitions at Hertford
- 2012 Exhibition at Worcester
- 2011 Exhibition, Swansea
- 2010 Exhibition, Woking
- 2009 30th Anniversary, Swansea
- 2008 Maritime Museum, Hartlepool (26 Apr – 21 Jun); weekend at Hartlepool Marina
- 2007 27th Annual Exhibition, South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury (16 Jun – 9 Sep)
- 2006 26th Annual Exhibition, Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch (11 Jun – 2 Jul)
- 2005 25th Annual Exhibition, The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock (23 Apr – 18 Jun)
- 2004 24th Annual Exhibition, Milestones, Basingstoke (1 Jun – 31 Jul)
- 2003 Annual Exhibition, Hat Works Museum, Stockport (7 May – 23 Jun)