There is an admission charge of £5 for non- HA members and £3 for students at Monday lectures. Associate membership of the branch is £20 per year.

Monday evening lectures take place at 7.25 pm at the West Cliff Hotel, Durley Chine Rd BH2 5JS. Free parking is available in the two car parks at the hotel BUT visitors must hand in their car registration details at reception or receive a fine. (Use M1, M2, 1, 3,16, 18,19, 20 and 36 buses getting off at St Michael’s Roundabout).

Branch secretary: Dr R. Hill. Contact: 0300 100 0223 | suzannah.stern@history.org.uk 

Bournemouth, Christchurch, & Poole Branch Programme 2026-27

 

Monday 5^th October 2026, 7.25 pm start

Dr Chris Fuller, Southampton University

Find, Fix, Finish, Flaunt: The Evolving Performance of Targeted Killings by U S Presidents 2001 to the Present

 

Monday 2^nd November 2026, 7.25 pm start

John Hubbard

Alfred Sisley, The Anglo - French Impressionist

 

Monday 7^th December 2026, 7.25 pm start

Prof. Chris Prior, Southampton University

Nelson Mandela: Word, Action and Building a Movement against Apartheid

 

Monday 25^th January 2027, 7.25pm start

Prof.  Mark Cornwall, Southampton University

The Sudeten German Problem and Czechoslovakia in the 1930s

 

Monday 8^th March 2027, 7.25pm start

Dr Gordon McElvie, University of Winchester

Edward IV’s Unpopularity in the 1460s

 

Monday 12^th April 2027, 7.25pm start

Dr John McAleer, Southampton University

The 7 Years War (1756 -63) and Britain’s Global Empire