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

 

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)