Buckinghamshire Branch Programme
Enquiries to Mrs. Terry Bloxham (Hon Secretary), 138 High Street, Aylesbury, HP20 1RB Tel: 07952 703535 E-mail: secretarybucksha@gmail.com
Meetings are being held on Wednesdays at 8 pm online via Zoom (except for the June event which will be in-person)
Buckinghamshire Historical Association
Admission to meetings is free to full and associate members of the Historical Association. Visitors and Students WELCOME and donations of £3 appreciated. Please contact the secretary for payment details
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (BUCKS BRANCH), ASSOCIATE SUBSCRIPTION 2025-2026
Associate membership of the Branch is £12 for the year from October 2025.
Buckinghamshire Branch Programme 2025-26
15 October 2025
Martyn Whittock, Independent Researcher and Author
The Search for American Vikings: untangling myth from reality
(preceded by the AGM at 7:35 pm)
19 November 2025
Dr Simon Elliott, Managing Director, Sentinel Communications
The African Emperor: the life and times of Septimius Severus
17 December 2025
Prof Richard Whatmore, School of History, University of St Andrews
The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis (title TBC)
21 January 2026
Dr Sara Lodge, School of English, University of St Andrews
Mrs. Holmes Taught Sherlock all he Knew: Uncovering the Truth about Victorian Women Detectives
18 February 2026
Dr Antony Harkins, Western Kentucky University, USA
Appalachia and the Hillbilly in the American Imagination
18 March 2026
Prof Susan Whitfield, University of East Anglia
Traces of the Silk Road in Northwest Europe
15 April 2026
Dr Angela McShane, Hon Reader in History, University of Warwick
Partying like it’s 1679 in Stony Stratford, or Mable Graves’s Very Bad Day: Political
Protest Songs in 17th Century England
20 May 2026
Prof Jenny Benham, Medieval History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff
The Unlikely Spies of Medieval Europe
17 June 2026
David Green
A historical and archaeological tour of Beaconsfield
(Wednesday evening, start time and place to be confirmed)