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Publication date: 26th July 2011

Bath Branch Programme 2011-12

Bath at night.
Bath at night.

All meetings will begin at 7.30 pm on the fourth Thursday of the month (except December) at the Bath Society Meeting Room, Green Park Station, Bath.

For further details please contact Mike Short, Branch Secretary - Tel: 01225 812945 or Email: mikeshort20@btinternet.com

 

22 September 2011

Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth Century Mediterranean

Adrian Tinniswood (Writer and historian)

 

27 October 2011

The Parliament Act 1911: Power, Politics and the Constitution

Dr Bruce Coleman (University of Exeter)

 

24 November 2011

Comfort and Convenience in the English Country House

Prof Marilyn Palmer (University of Leicester)

 

15 December 2011

Members' Christmas Visit and Buffet at Beckford's Tower, Bath

  

26 January 2012

Reflections on the Battle of Bosworth

Chris Skidmore MP (Writer and historian, author of Edward VI: The Lost King of England and Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart)

 

23 February 2012

Abraham Lincoln: Myth, Legacy and Reality

Prof Richard Carwardine (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)  

 

22 March 2012

Roman Historians and the Wars of the Roses

Dr John Watts (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)      

 

26 April 2012

Writing contemporary British history

Prof Sir Brian Harrison (formerly Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)

 

10 May 2012

Special event: Robert Lacey will speak on his new book A Brief Life of the Queen

7.30 pm at the Hilton Bath City Hotel

Tickets from Mike Short, mikeshort20@btinternet.com, 01225 812945

 

31 May 2012

Members' Visit to Berkeley Castle and Dr Edward Jenner's House

 

Saturday 7 July 2012

Members' Visit to Gloucester