Enquiries: Richard Turk at richardgturk@yahoo.com or call 07958 729526

Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £3 per meeting. Local membership of the Branch is £18 per year.

All Meetings begin at 8pm (except May which starts at7.30pm) and take place at Richmond Library Annexe, Quadrant Road, Richmond upon Thames, TW9 1DH. Quadrant Road is between Specsavers and Lloyds Bank on the Quadrant.

 

 

Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme 2026 - 27

 

 

Thursday September 24, 2026. Dr Julia Nicholls, King’s College London

The Paris Commune, 1871: A Socialist Dawn or the End of the Revolutionary Tradition?

 

Thursday October 22, 2026. Dr Nicola Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London

Doubly Deviant Women? Sex, Trial and Punishment in Georgian England.

 

Thursday November 26, 2026. Emeritus Professor Carl Bridge, King’s College London

Australia’s Gallipoli, 1915: myths and realities.

 

Thursday January 28, 2027. Professor Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London

Saladin, Richard the Lionheart and the Siege of Acre (1189-91)

 

Thursday February 25, 2027.  Professor Richard Vinen, King’s College London

Churchill and de Gaulle: ‘He thinks he’s Joan of Arc but I can’t get my bloody bishops to burn him.’

 

Thursday March 25, 2027. Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Graham, University College London  

Collapse? Extinction? Sacrifice? What you always wanted to know about the Maya - but were afraid to ask.

 

Thursday April 22, 2027. Professor Glenn Richardson, St Mary’s University, London

1527: The Turning Point of the Reign of Henry VIII.

 

Thursday May 27, 2027, at 7.30pm. Katja Hoyer, Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London

Weimar: Life on the edge of catastrophe.