Ealing Branch Programme 2024-25 

Meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month at Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT, at 7.30pm, with the exception of the November meeting which takes place at Twyford School at 6.30pm. Talks are live events but with the speaker’s permission we aim to make a recording available afterwards to those registering on Eventbrite.

Branch members (£15 annual fee) and visitors (£5 per talk) students free.

Secretary: Dr Philip Woods. Tel 0208 579 2174. Email philipgwoods@outlook.com

For fuller and up-to-date details: www.ealinghistory.org.uk

 

2024

10 September

The Memory of the Crusades in western Europe and the Near East from the C18th to the present day.

Professor Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London

 

8 October

Capitalism and Slavery. Where are we now?

Emerita Professor Catherine Hall, Department of History, University College London, Chair of the Centre for the study of the Legacies of British Slavery.

 

12 November

Violence and peaceful persuasion in Lenin’s approach to the Russian Revolution 1917-24 (speaking to the sixth form evening at Twyford CoE High school, W3 9PP, 6.30pm)

Emeritus Professor Chris Read, Warwick University

 

10 December

AGM & Christmas Social

 

2025

 

14 January

Issues in Writing Modern Political Biographies

Dr Andrew Lownie, Senior Research Fellow in Modern British History at the University of Buckingham.

 

11 February

Widows of the Ice: The Women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Left Behind

Anne Fletcher, author

 

11 March

The Debatable Resilience of Nehru’s Liberal Democracy in India

Emeritus Professor James Manor, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London

 

8 April

Off the beaten track: researching and writing social histories of the Third Reich

Julia Boyd, author

 

13 May

What can you learn from a cookbook (other than how to cook)?

Professor Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick

 

10 June

Maimed Soldiers, War Widows and the Human Cost of the English Civil Wars: stories from the Civil War Petitions project

Dr Ismini Pells, Oxford department for Continuing Education