Central London Branch Programme 2011-12

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Central London Branch Officers:

President: Professor David Stevenson (LondonSchool of Economics)

Secretary: Mrs Chrissie Ganjou, Email chrissie@ganjou.com  Tel 020 7323 1192

Membership Secretary: Mr Stuart Baines, email stueybaines@btinternet.com Tel 020 8883 5954

Treasurer: Mrs. Jill Kilsby, email malcolmkilsby@blueyonder.co.uk Tel 07957 627 783

Lectures start at 2.00 p.m. on Saturdays at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU (except for the 10th December 2011 which starts at 1 p.m.) 

In 2011-12 the Institute will be occupying temporary accommodation on the 3rd Floor of the South Block of Senate House. Directions to the room will be available at the Institute reception.

Lectures are free to H.A. Members - £3 non- Members.

For events where pre-booking is required, please contact the Treasurer, Jill Kilsby (see above)

Saturday 8 October 2011

Presidential Lecture – ‘Architecture in Alsace: Historic Buildings of Colmar & Strasbourg’ (illustrated), followed by the Branch AGM

Professor David Stevenson

Saturday 26 November 2011

Visit to St. John’s Gate led by Pat Smith, City of London Guide

Meet at 11.25 a.m. - nearest station is Farringdon but is often closed at weekends so Barbican (5 minute walk) is an alternative. A £5 voluntary donation is expected  and numbers are restricted to 15 so booking is essential.

Saturday 10 December 2011 – 1pm Start

Derek Knights Memorial Lecture – ‘Food in Medieval Russia, A.D. 754-1480 ‘ including the significance of Christmas in Russia in comparison with the West’. To be followed by the Branch Christmas social - (free to Central London Branch Members; £6 non-members). Pre-booking for the Christmas social required for everyone for catering purposes.

Professor Nicole Crossley-Holland, D.es L., Fellow of the Universityof Wales.

Saturday 14 January 2012

‘Sentence – to be shot to death with musquetry’ crime and punishment in early nineteenth century India

Hedley Sutton (This is the Lecture that unfortunately Hedley was unable to give in January 2011.)

Saturday 18 February 2012

The History of the Charterhouse’

Stephen Green

Thursday 15 March 2012

‘From Manor Houses to Molly Houses – creeping around the Rookeries’ – a guided walk with Karen Chester, City of London Guide Lecturer.

This walk will find us prowling around the darkest corners of the City’s Fringe. Plague pits and pocket handkerchiefs, strawberries, red roses and bleeding hearts. What can they possibly have in common? Maybe we’ll even stir up a ghost or two? A few more pubs than usual on this one. We’ll need to steady our nerves! Meet at 6.30 pm at the exit from Barbican tube station, above ground on Aldersgate Street.   £4 for Branch Members, £8 non-Members.

Saturday 14 April 2012  

‘Travel in the Middle Ages’   

Professor Jane Sayers 

Saturday 19 May 2012

‘Berlin at War’

Roger Moorhouse

Saturday 16 June 2012

'Guided Tour of the London Charterhouse' led by Stephen Green

Meet at the Gatehouse at 2.15 p.m.  Tour and tea & biscuits £15. Maximum numbers - 25

Sunday 24 June 2012

'The Lost River Walk' - with Ann Archibold, London City Guide.

This walk will last for about 2 hours (just under 2 miles) and will follow the course of one of London's 'lost' rivers, the Walbrook, from its source in Shoreditch to the River Thames at Cannon Street. Meet by the ticket barrier, Old Street Station at 11 a.m. £4 for Branch Members, £8 non-Members.