Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme 2020-21

All meetings take place at 8.00pm at The Vestry Hall, 21 Paradise Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1SA.

Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £2.00 per meeting. Local membership of the Branch is £14.00 per year.

For any further information contact Richard Turk, Chairman, on 07958 729526 or email: richardgturk@yahoo.com

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24^th September 2020

George Goodwin

“The Battle of Towton 1461”

22^nd October

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

“D’Annunzio & the Seizure of Fiume 1919”

 

26^th November 2020

Dr Jennifer Altehenger, Associate Professor of Chinese History

“The Cultural Revolution: Event, Experience, Myth”

 

28^th January 2021

Dr Ellie Goodacre, University of Winchester

“Medieval Queens: Ruling Women in a ‘Man’s World’”

 

25^th February 2021

Paul Lay, Editor of History Today, Historian & Author

“The Western Design: Oliver Cromwell’s Expedition into the New World, 1655”

 

25^th March 2021

Ralph Thompson, National Archives

“The English Civil War in Surrey”

 

22^nd April 2021

Chris Naunton, President of the International Association of Egyptologists

“Lost Tombs of Egypt”

 

27^th May 2021

Professor Jonathan Harris, Professor of Byzantine History, Royal Holloway College, London

“Byzantium and the Crusades”