Birmingham Branch Programme 2011-12

The Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line Canal between the International Convention Centre (left), Brindleyplace (right), and Broad Street Tunnel (ahead) in central Birmingham, England. A part of the canal originally called Deep Cutting.

Lecture Series: Fame and Infamy

All lectures are at 6pm, on Tuesdays at The Open University, 66 High Street, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9NB

18 October 2011

History and Memory; Turkish Memorialisation at Gallipoli

Dr Bob Bushaway, University of Birmingham

22 November 2011

Field Marshall Haig

Dr John Bourne, University of Birmingham

17 January 2012

Anti-Popery or eyewitness account: George Gascoyne and the Sack of Antwerp, 1576

Mark Wilson, University of Birmingham

14 February 2012 

'How should we interpret the Staffordshire Hoard - royal war-booty or thief's treasure?'

Professor Nicholas Brooks, University of Birmingham

13 March 2012

'A Meritocracy of Violence: The Officers of the Worcestershires 1914-1918'

Nick Beeching, University of Birmingham

17 April 2012

‘Bronte's Shirley: Luddites as heroes and vagabonds; an ambiguous presentation'

Ariella Feldman, University of Birmingham

16 May 2012

The ninth Eric Hopkins Memorial Lecture (topic to be confirmed)

For more details contact the Branch Secretary: Mark Wilson markwi20@hotmail.com