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

All meetings will be held on Thursdays from 7-9 pm at St Saviour’s Church Hall, South Street, Eastbourne BN21 4UT.

Entry is free to members, and visitor fees are £2 per lecture. Annual associate branch membership is available at the door for £10. 

 

 

East Sussex Branch Programme 2026 - 7

 

 

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

Meeting TBC

 

Thursday 4 February 2027

Don’t Hog the Drinking Cup!’ Parish Festivals before the Reformation (provisional title)

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

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, “A Tonic to the Nation”

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.