Enquiries to Mrs.Terry Bloxham (Hon Secretary), 138 High Street, Aylesbury, HP20 1RB

Tel: 07952 703535  E-mail: secretarybucksha@gmail.com

Meetings are being held on Wednesdays at 8.00 pm online via Zoom (except for the June event which will be in-person)

Admission to meetings is free to full and associate members of the Historical Association. Visitors and Students WELCOME and donations of £3 appreciated.

Associate membership of the Branch is £12 for the year from October 2026

Please pay by standing order, bank transfer (contact Hon Secretary for details), cash or cheque. Cheques for associate membership fees should be made payable to Historical Association-Bucks Branch, and (if apt) posted to: HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (BUCKS BRANCH), ASSOCIATE SUBSCRIPTION 2026-2027

www.buckshistoricalassociation.org.uk  

 

Buckinghamshire Branch Programme 2026-27

 

 

21 October 2026

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

Early Migration and the Making of Europe

(preceded by the AGM at 7:35pm)

 

18 November 2026

Professor Beat Kümin, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Warwick

‘The Peasants are becoming aware’: Reflections on the Quincentenary of the Great War of 1525 in the Holy Roman Empire

 

16 December 2026

Prof Vaughan Scribner, Dept of History, University of Central Arkansas

British Soldiers in the American Revolution (title tbc)

 

20 January 2027

Dr Mark Merrony, Supernumerary Fellow, Wolfson College, Univ of Oxford

on his findings of the ‘humongous’ Roman fort in Pembrokeshire, 2024

 

17 February 2027

Prof Richard Overy, Professor of Archaeology and History, Univ of Exeter

'Incendiary bombs versus atom bombs. Which mattered more in the surrender of Japan?'

 

17 March 2027

Prof Aleks Pluskowski, Department of Archaeology, Univ of Reading

The Black Cross: a history of the Baltic Crusades (title tbc)

 

21 April 2027

Prof Emily Mark-FitzGerald, School of Art History and Cultural Policy, Univ College Dublin

Screening Irish Evictions: Photography and the “Irish Question” in 1880s England

 

19 May 2027

Dr Amy Fuller, Senior Lecturer in the History of the Americas, Nottingham Trent University

How One Woman Conquered Mexico: the legacy of Malintzin / Doña Marina the conquistadors’ indigenous interpreter