Bath Branch Programme 2025-26

Entry to lectures is free for national HA members and Bath branch local members who have paid an annual subscription. Visitors are welcome and are asked to pay £5 per lecture.

For more information please contact Mike Short, Branch Secretary, mikeshort20@btinternet.com or 01225 812945.

Lectures begin at 7.30 pm at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN.

The Bath branch website is www.historybath.org.

 

Bath Programme 2025-26

Thursday 25 September 2025

Rethinking the Early East India Company: Empire and Memory

Speaker: Dr Mark Williams (Cardiff Unioversity)

 

Thursday 23 October 2025

The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

Speaker: Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Author)

 

Thursday 20 November 2025

Reassessing William Beckford

Speaker: Dr Amy Frost (Bath Preservation Trust)

 

Thursday 15 January 2026

Napoleon: the famous delinquent

Speaker: Professor Michael Broers (University of Oxford)

 

Thursday 26 February 2026

The Terror in the French Revolution

Speaker: Professor William Doyle (University of Bristol)

 

Thursday 26 March 2026

Dictatorships and authoritarianism in modern German history: new perspectives on an old problem

Speaker: Dr Andre Keil (Liverpool John Moores University)

 

Thursday 16 April 2026

HA Bath Centenary Reception in Bath Guildhall

 

Thursday 23 April 2026

Thomas More: Man, Myth and Mystery

Speaker: Dr Joanne Paul (University of Sussex)

 

Tuesday 19 May 2026

Members’ visit to Rodmarton Manor

 

Thursday 18 June 2026

Members’ visit to Lydiard House and St Mary’s Church, Lydiard Tregoze