Canterbury Branch Programme 2021-22

Talks are open to the public and are free to HA members, branch members and students; others are asked to pay £3 towards expenses. Branch membership is £10 per year. We hope to return to physical meetings in the venues listed below, but if talks have to continue on Zoom, we will send out further information in due course. Inevitably, because of the pandemic, some details below are still to be confirmed.

 

Contact: canterburyha@gmail.com

 

 

2021

 

Thursday 16 September, 4.30pm

Venue: Kent College, H1, CT2 9DT

HA Canterbury Branch Committee Meeting

 

Thursday 30 September, 6.15pm (AGM) and 7pm (talk)

Venue: The Old Synagogue, 33-34 King St, Canterbury CT1 2AJ

AGM followed by ‘The Craft: How the Freemasons mad ethe Modern World’

Professor John Dickie, University College London

 

Tuesday 16 November, 7pm

Venue: King’s School Canterbury, Gateway Chamber, St Augustine’s, Lady Wootton’s Green CT1 1NG

6^th Form Debate

 

Thursday 11 November, 7pm

Venue: University of Kent, Grimond Lecture Theatre 1, CT2 7NZ

Talk – title TBC

Professor Hakim Adi, University of Chichester.

 

Thursday 2 December, 7pm

Venue: Kent College, Old Library CT2 9DT

‘British Philanthropy and National Identity: Politics and Culture wars Since 1700’

Professor Hugh Cunningham, Kent University

 

 

2022

 

Thursday 6 January, 4.30pm

Venue: King’s School Canterbury, Gateway Chamber, St Augustine’s, Lady Wootton’s Green CT1 1NG

HA Canterbury Branch Committee Meeting

 

Thursday 13 January, 7pm

Venue: Kent College, Great Hall, CT2 9DT

‘Everyday Life and Accidental Death in Tudor Kent’

Professor Steven Gunn, Merton College, Oxford

 

Thursday 17 February, 7pm

Venue: Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury Cathedral, CT1 2EG

‘Crown & Sceptre: A History of the British Monarchy, 1066-2021’.

Dr Tracy Borman, Historic Royal Palaces

 

Thursday 10 March, 7pm

Venue: TBC

‘World War II and its Consequences’

Sir Antony Beevor

 

Thursday 14 April, 4.30pm

Venue: Kent College, H1, CT2 9DT

HA Canterbury Branch Committee Meeting

 

Thursday 5 May, 7pm (talk) and 8.15pm (buffet)

King’s School Canterbury, The Undercroft, St Augustine’s, Lady Wootton’s Green CT1 1NG

‘L. du Garde Peach’s Ladybird Books Adventures from History Series: Peach and History and the History of Peach’

Dr David Perkins, King’s School Canterbury

Followed by a buffet supper from 8.15pm

 

Thursday 2 June, 7pm

Venue: TBC

‘The Slaves’ War: The U.S. Civil War & the Founding of the Second American Republic’

Dr Erik Mathiesen, Kent University

 

Thursday 9 June, time TBC

Venue: Kent College, Old Library CT2 9DT

CPD day for teachers of KS2 History (Details TBC)

 

Thursday 23 June, daytime

Visit to Canterbury led by Julian Waltho, followed by

‘1399 and All That – How Henry IV Sacrificed his Family and Saved the British Empire?’

Malcolm Johnston

 

Thursday 13 January, time TBC

Venue: Canterbury Christchurch University.

‘History at University’ Seminar – for Year 12 students interested in studying History at university. Details TBC