Venue: Queen's College, Taunton (unless otherwise stated)

Time: 7.30 pm

Entry charge: £2.00 per meeting (£8.00 for all 6 meetings) A separate charge is made for the AGM lunch and/or visits

For further information please contact: G. Bisson (01823 353749)

 

 

Wednesday 19th September 2018

Venue: The White Horse, Bradford on Tone.  

The AGM lunch with:

Martin Davidson (Vice Chair, Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society)

‘The Norman Garden: How to make a project out of very little’

Please book a place in advance by contacting Mr Bisson: Cost £10.

 

Wednesday 10^th October 2018

Catherine Nixey (Journalist and Historian)

‘The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World’

 

Wednesday 7^th November 2018

Dr Charles Laderman (King’s College, London)

‘Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question and the Anglo-American Search for a New World Order’

 

Thursday 22nd November 2018

The Great Debate (for 16 - 19 year old students)

South West of England Heat of HA Competition (6.00 pm)

'What was the greatest failure of the Age of Revolutions?'

Wednesday 5^th December 2018

Dr Jameson Tucker (University of Plymouth)

‘The French Wars of Religion, 1562-98: Huguenots, Holy Leagues and Dynasties’

 

Wednesday 9^th January 2019

Dr Christopher Dillon (King’s College, London)

‘Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence’

 

Wednesday 6^th February 2019

Dr Claire McCallum (University of Exeter)

‘The Second World War in Russian Memory from 1945 to the Present’

 

Wednesday 6^th March 2019

Professor Jean Seaton (University of Westminster)

‘Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the Nation in the 1970s and Now’