Cumbria Branch Programme 2011-12

Cumbria

Meetings are usually held at 7:00 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the Old Town Hall, Carlisle, CA3 8JE (*unless otherwise, as stated)

Prospective members are always welcome. For further information, please contact Ian Mason, branch secretary on 01228 819146

26 September 2011  

Cumbria Branch AGM, followed by ‘The Excitement and Challenges of Closing an Old Record Office and Reopening in a New Location'

Tom Robson, Senior Archivist, Cumbria Archive Service

31 October 2011

‘Carlisle, the Forgotten Diocese of the North, c.1540-1700'

Dr.Andrew W.Foster, Chairman of the Public History Committee of the H.A.

28 November 2011 

‘The Silk Road in History from 55BC to AD550'

Professor John Thorley

30 January 2012

'The General Strike and the Railways: strikers and volunteers'

Professor Robin Smith

27 February 2012

‘The Border Reivers'

Edwin Rutherford, Keeper of Social History at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle

24 March 2012 at 2:30 p.m. 

In Kendal Branch of the Cumbria Record Office, County Office, Kendal LA9 4RQ

‘The Victorian Fair: Brough Hill Fair, Westmorland'

Guy Woolnough, Researcher in Criminology at Keele University

23 April 2012   

‘"The Monstrous Regiment of Women" in Tudor and Stuart England'

Professor Jackie Eales, FR HistS, & President of HA, Canterbury Christ Church University