Canterbury Branch Programme

Canterbury Branch Programme 2020-21
Talks are open to the public and are free to HA members, branch members and students. Branch membership is £10 per year; please contact canterburyha@gmail.com for details.
All talks will be held via Zoom for this year, until our usual venues can open again. Please note we have 100 places available for each talk until further notice.
To be part of this year’s online lectures you will need to book in advance with canterburyha@gmail.com
Thursday 17 Sept, 4.30pm
Committee Meeting
Thursday 15 Oct, 7pm
Professor Arthur Burns (KCL)
New Light on the Mad King: George III as Revealed in the Georgian Papers at Windsor Castle
Zoom talk, please book in advance with canterburyha@gmail.com
Thursday 12 Nov, 7pm
Dr Emma Hanna (Kent University)
Sounds of War: Music in the British Armed Forces During the Great War'
Zoom talk, please book in advance with canterburyha@gmail.com
Thursday 3 Dec, 7pm
Prof John Butler
The Quest for Becket's bones: St Thomas of Canterbury and the enduring appeal of holy relics.
Zoom talk, please book in advance with canterburyha@gmail.com
2021
Thursday 7 Jan, 4.30pm
Committee Meeting
Thursday 21 Jan, 7pm
Lawrence and Marjorie Lyle Commemorative Lecture
Dr Sophie Ambler, Deputy Director of the Centre for War and Diplomacy
Simon de Montfort and the First English Revolution, 1258-65: the War in Kent
Zoom talk, please book in advance with canterburyha@gmail.com
Thursday 4 Feb, 7pm
Dr John Bulaitis, (Canterbury Christ Church University)
1956 – Communism’s Traumatic Year
Zoom talk, please book in advance with canterburyha@gmail.com
Thursday 11 Mar, 7pm
Dr Ed Roberts (Kent University)
Popes, Bishops and Forgeries: Inventing Church Authority in Early Medieval Europe
Zoom talk, please book in advance with canterburyha@gmail.com
Thursday 15 Apr, 4.30pm
Committee Meeting
Thursday 6 May, 7pm
Dr Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford)
The Elizabethan Succession (1558-1603): A European Perspective
Zoom talk, please book in advance with canterburyha@gmail.com
Visit – TBC
Thursday 10 June
CPD day for teachers of KS2 history.
Details TBC