Bedford Branch Programme 2011-12

Map of Bedford by John Speed, 1611.

All lectures are at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated

For further details please telephone 01234 266 839, or email james@simla.org.uk

8 September 2011, Meet at 6pm, St Peter's Church, Bedford

Tour of part of Historic Bedford

Led by Richard Wildman

Followed by Bedford Branch AGM, 7.30pm at the Masters' Common Room, Bedford School

12th October 2011, at Bedford School Library

The Black Death: some reflections

Professor Tom James of King Alfred's University College, Winchester

Wine and nibbles will be offered to celebrate Secretary's long survival as member of the HA!

9 November 2011, at Putnoe Heights Church Centre

The Curious Mr Howard

Tessa West, author. The lecture is based on her recent book on John Howard of Cardington, Prison Reformer (1726-1790)

Joint meeting with the Bedfordshire Architectural Archaeological and Local History Society.

30 November 2011, at Bedford School Library

King James Bible 1611 and 2011

Professor Gordon Campbell of Leicester University

25 January 2012, at Bedford School Library

Themes of Russian History

Roger Cornwell, well known local lecturer and member of our branch.

8 February 2012, at Bedford School Library

'The Image of the Bandit in Revolutionary Europe: from folk hero to romantic icon'

Dr Michael Broers of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

20 February 2012, at Bedford School Library (provisional meeting)

The Origins of the First World War

Matthew Seligmann of University of Northampton

14 March 2012, Venue to be confirmed

'Moral problem, social problem?: changing attitudes to welfare in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England'

Joanna Innes Somerville College, Oxford