Enquiries: Richard Turk at richardgturk@yahoo.com or call 07958 729526

Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £3 per meeting. Local membership of the Branch is £18 per year.

All Meetings begin at 8pm and take place at Richmond Library Annexe, Quadrant Road, Richmond upon Thames, TW9 1DH. Quadrant Road is between Specsavers and Lloyds Bank on the Quadrant.

 

 

Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme 2025 - 2026

 

 

25^th September 2025

Justin O’Hagan, postgraduate researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Lady Godiva, Magna Carta & Kings John: Roger of Wendover and Medieval History

 

23^rd October 2025

Carl Bridge, Emeritus Professor of Australian History at King’s College London

Australia’s Gallipoli 1915: Myths and Realities

 

27^th November 2025

Lucy Hughes-Hallett, historian and author

The Duke of Buckingham: The Handsomest Man in seventeenth century Europe and his Patronage of the Arts.

 

22^nd January 2026

Dr Sam Moorhead, National Finds Adviser for Iron Age and Roman coins at The British Museum

Carausius, Allectus and the First Brexit, 286-296 AD.”

 

26^th February 2026

Professor Andrew Jotischky, Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway, University of London

The Inedible Middle Ages: Food, Performance and Status in Medieval Society

 

26^th March 2026

Peter Heather, Professor of Medieval History, King’s College London

Why did the Roman Empire fall? (And why do empires fall?)

 

23^rd April 2026

Adrian Phillips, historian and author

Gaining a year’s breathing space: Re-writing history to justify Neville Chamberlain’s blunders at Munich in 1938

 

28^th May 2026

Gareth Davies, Professor of American History at the University College London Institute of the Americas

Dis-United States: The roots of the contemporary polarisation of American society