Cambridge Branch Programme 2011/2012

Kings College Chapel West. Author Andrew Dunn. Licensed under: Creative Commons.

For further information, please contact Cambridge Branch Secretary: Tricia Kellett, tel 01480 467 259 email tricia.kellett@btinternet.com

Saturday 10 September 2011

Stall at Stourbridge Fair, Stourbridge Common, Cambridge, from 12pm - 4pm.

Everyone welcome

Monday 26 September 2011

6pm  Heffers bookshop

Debate:  Was Appeasement right?

Professor John Charmley, University of East Anglia

Monday 31 October 2011

6.30pm Heffers bookshop

The Empire of the Incas 

Professor Chris Given-Wilson, St Andrews University

Monday 7 November 2011    

6.30pm Heffers Bookshop

Cambridge in the Empire of the Normans

Professor David Bates, University of East Anglia

Wednesday 23 November 2011    

2pm Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library

Tales from the Cambridgeshire Collection:  Cambridge and the Boer War

Dr Seán Lang, Anglia Ruskin University

Monday 5 December 2011   

Meeting at 6pm for dinner at Strada, 17 Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1TB

Cambridge Branch Annual Christmas Dinner

Tuesday 13 December 2011

Anglia Ruskin University

‘A' Level study day

Dr Seán Lang and Dr Jonathan Davis, Anglia Ruskin University

Wednesday 1 February 2012

2pm Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library

Tales from the Cambridgeshire Collection:  Lion Yard and the Battle for the Kite

Dr Seán Lang, Anglia Ruskin University

Monday 6 February 2012

6pm Cafe Naz, 45/47 Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 OAH

Talk and Curry Evening

Guest speaker:  Lizzie Collingham talking about her book:  Imperial Bodies: The physical experience of the Raj and Curry: a tale of cooks and conquerors.  This will be followed by a curry evening.

Monday 20 February 2012

6pm Scott Polar Research Institute

Film evening:  Polar Expedition Films.

Heather Lane, Scott Polar Research Institute

To mark the centenary of Captain Scott's voyage to the South Pole.

Friday 24 February 2012

7.30pm Anglia Ruskin University

History Challenge Quiz

Monday 5 March 2012

6.30pm Heffers bookshop

Ancient Theatre for Historians

Professor Edith Hall, Kings College, London.

Wednesday 28 March 2012

2pm Tales from the Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library

Tales from the Cambridgeshire Collection:  Catholics and Protestants in Victorian Cambridge

Dr Seán Lang, Anglia Ruskin University

Thursday 29 March 2012

7.30pm Bottisham Village College

CPD evening for History teachers

Tuesday 17 April 2012

6pm Cambridge Arts Picturehouse

The Titanic in film and popular culture

Dr Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University

Followed by a special showing of ‘A Night to Remember'

Monday 23 April 2012

6.30pm Heffers bookshop

Debate:  Should we apologise for the Crusades?

Speakers: Dr Michael Berdine, Cambridge Muslim College & Dr Susan Edgington, Huntingdon Regional College.

Monday 14 May 2012

6.30pm Heffers bookshop

The body and bed of Queen Elizabeth I

Dr Anna Whitelock, Royal Holloway, University of London

Saturday 2 June 2012

Meet at Anglia Ruskin University at 9am

Coach Tour:  In the footsteps of Matthew Hopkins - The Witch-Finder General

Monday 18 June 2012

6.30pm Heffers bookshop  

Germany and the causes of the First World War

Professor Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann

This meeting will also incorporate the Cambridge Branch AGM