Essex Branch Programme
Essex Branch Programme 2024 - 25
Talks on Saturdays, 2.30pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2XB. Please check the calendar on this website for details.
Visitors and prospective members warmly welcomed - £3, Associate Members fee £10.00 / £15.00 for 2 members at same address
Branch Contact: Tony Tuckwell 01245 256423 tony@tuckwell.eclipse.co.uk
Website: https://essexbranchha.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/essexha
Twitter: https://twitter.com/essex_ha
21 September 2024
Annual General Meeting, followed by
The Witch Trials of Chelmsford
Mike Dodsworth, Storyteller
12 October 2024
Attack on Farms & Rural Distress in 19th Century Essex
Jef Page, Lecturer and tour guide
7 December 2024
DEBATE
Causes of the American Civil War (1) Bleeding Kansas-Whose side are you on, Butternuts?
Martin Frampton and John Edgar
(Light seasonal refreshments after the talk)
2025
11 January 2025
Charles II’s revenge on the men who killed his father – retribution or justice?
Don Jordan. Co-Author, “The King’s Revenge”
8 February 2025
The Zulu Show: Disasters after Rorkes Drift, Louis Napoleon’s story, the weird tale of John Dunn & how the Zulus conquered London
Dave McCall, (Author: David Ebsworth: The Kraals of Ulundi)
22 March 2025
What have the Normans ever done for us?
Professor David Bates. University of East Anglia
26 April 2025
Alfred the Great and Late Anglo-Saxon England
Dr. Eric Boston. C.A.T.S. College, Cambridge
17 May 2025
The North Sea Floods of 1953
Cherry Boroughs (Author: The Farmer & the Fury)
For further information: www.history.org.uk http://essexbranchha.blogspot.com