Branch contact All enquiries to membershipwsha@yahoo.co.uk or Telephone: 01784 435630

Venue: All meetings start at 7.30pm and will be held at St Nicolas’ Hall, Bury Street, Guildford, GU2 4AW. The nearest car park is Portsmouth Road Car Park (GU2 4BW). Early arrival advised. 

Associate membership £20 per year. Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors £8.

Branch website: www.historicalassociationsurrey.com.

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West Surrey Programme 2026-27

 

 

Tuesday 15 Sept 2026

Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War

Prof. Lyndal Roper, Emeritus Regius Professor of History, Oriel College, University of Oxford.

 

Saturday 10 Oct 2026

West Surrey Branch Inaugural Quiz

 

Tuesday 13 Oct 2026

“We hold these truths”: Reinterpreting the Declaration of Independence

Prof. Max Edling, Professor of Early American History, King's College London.

 

Tuesday 17 Nov 2026

Grain Millers in English popular politics, 1315-1815: adultery, adulteration and profiteering

Prof. Mike Braddick, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford.

 

Tuesday 8 Dec 2026

Why Should we Care about the Wars of the Roses nowadays?

Prof. John Watts, Professor of Later Medieval History, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.

 

Tuesday 12 Jan 2027

The Graham Searle Lecture - Rethinking Henry VIII's Reformation

Prof. Lucy Wooding, Professor of History, Lincoln College, University of Oxford.

 

Tuesday 9 Feb 2027

The African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa

Prof. Benedetta Rossi, Professor of History, University College London.

 

Tuesday 9 March 2027

Crucible of Light: Islam and the forging of Europe

Dr. Elizabeth Drayson, Emerita Fellow in Spanish, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.

 

Tuesday 6 April 2027

Feeding Medieval England
Prof. Helena Hamerow, Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.

 

Tuesday 11 May 2027

Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life

Prof. Jane Hamlett, Professor of Modern British History, Royal Holloway, University of London.