For all branch enquiries please contact Dr John Oliphant at john@johnoliphant.net or telephone 07910 672 131

We meet at 7pm at St. Saviour’s Church Hall on the first Thursday of most months. Parking is available in the church grounds and there is level access to the hall.  Tea and coffee are available.

Entry is free to national and branch associate members. Visitors are asked to pay £3 per lecture and those wishing to become local annual members are charged £15. These cover the hire of the hall, use of its new AV equipment and lecturers’ expenses.

 

East Sussex Branch Programme 2026 - 7

 

Thursday 2 July 2026

Sussex Wills and Material Cultures

Dr. Emily Vine, University of Exeter

 

Thursday 3 September 2026

Charles I: Tyrant or Martyr?

Dr. David Smith, University of Cambridge

 

Thursday 1 October 2026

The Chevalier d’Eon: Changing Sex in the Eighteenth Century

Dr. Stephen Brogan, Birkbeck

 

Thursday 5 November 2026

Generaloberst Erich Hoepner: Panzer Commander and Anti-Hitler Plotter

Philip Kay-Bujak, Independent Scholar

 

Thursday 4 February 2027

‘Don’t Hog the Drinking Cup!’ Parish Festivals before the Reformation

Dr Claire Kennan, Associate Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London

 

Thursday 4 March 2027

The Jagiellonians (1377-1596): From Pagan Tribe to High Renaissance Dynasty (The rise of the rulers of Poland, Lithuania and Hungary)

Natalia Nowakowska, Professor of European History, Somerville College, University of Oxford

 

Thursday 1 April 2027

The Goths and the Roman Empire

Dr David Gwynn, Reader in Ancient and Late Antique History, Royal Holloway, University of London

 

Thursday 6 May 2027

The Festival of Britain 1951

Colin Manton, independent scholar

 

Thursday 3 June 2027

My Life as a Spy in Communist Czechoslovakia

Mark Cornwall, Emeritus Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton

 

Thursday 1 July 2027

Convicts or naval bases? The founding of New South Wales

Dr John Oliphant, Independent scholar and author.