Leicester & Northampton Branches Joint Programme of Online Talks & Activities 2025-26

All talks are online and take place at 6pm-7.30pm. Booking is through Eventbrite.

Entry is free of charge.

All enquiries for Leicester Branch: Dr Alex Byrne. alexander.bryne@dmu.ac.uk

All enquiries for Northampton Branch: Professor Matthew McCormack. Matthew.McCormack@northampton.ac.uk

 

9 September 2025

Andy Chapman (Northamptonshire Archaeological Society)

Excavations at St James’s Abbey Northampton

 

14 October 2025

Professor Peter Ackers, Loughborough University

Trade Unions & the British Industrial Relations Crisis: Writing the Biography of Hugh Clegg

 

18 November 2025

Bill Lindsay, Independent Scholar

Caroline Chisholm: Northampton's Victorian Humanitarian

 

9 December 2025 Date TBC

HA Great Debate Heats in Leicester and Northampton

This year’s question: How important are personal and public records as evidence for explaining the story, or stories, of your local area?

 

10^th February 2026

Prof Mark Rothery (UON) and Dr Alison Carrol (Brunel)

“A Source of the Greatest Anxiety”: Visions of a Channel Tunnel between England and France in the Late Nineteenth Century

 

17 March 2026

Nathen Amin

The Early Tudors

 

April – No meeting.

 

12 May 2024

Gillian Williamson, Independent Scholar

John London: A Black Georgian businessman, householder and voter