For all enquires and for events where pre-booking is required, please contact:

Jill Kilsby MA, MBA, 8 Purley Oaks Road, Sanderstead, Surrey, CR2 ONP

Email: jillkilsby2012@live.co.uk | Tel: 07957 627783

Branch President: Vacancy

Honorary Vice-Presidents: Professor David Stevenson, Mrs Chrissie Ganjou

Vice-Chairs: Jill Kilsby, Hedley Sutton

Treasurer: Jill Kilsby 

Venue: All talks start at 2pm and take place at St. Anne’s Church 55 Dean Street, London W1S 6AF, Allen Room, first floor (lift available). The venue is accessible via various bus routes, and tube stations and Charing Cross Station is not far away.

Associate membership fees Individual £12.50 per year, Joint Family £20. Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors £3.

Central London Branch Programme 2025-6

Saturday 25^th October 2025

Fighting Bolsheviks Fooling Nazis and Making History: The Extraordinary Life of Robert Bruce Lockhart

Professor James Crossland, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Society & Culture Co-Director, Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH)

To be followed by the branch AGM

 

Saturday 13^th December 2025

Byzantium: The Forgotten Empire

Professor Jonathan Harris, Professor in Byzantium History, Director of Postgraduate Study (Research Degrees), Royal Holloway, University of London                                                                            

To be followed by the Branch Christmas Social (Social free to Central London Branch Members: £6 non-Members). Pre-booking for the Christmas Social required for everyone for catering purposes, please contact Jill Kilsby.

 

Saturday 24 January 2026, 2pm

Monks, Madness and Murder

Meet Ann Archbold at Aldgate Station for a walk to Bishopsgate, hearing about the area's long history and some of the "dirty deeds" committed in the area, but also more joyful events.

If you are not sure you will be able to manage all the walk, please feel free to leave at a suitable point.

Pre-booking and payment required.  Please contact Jill Kilsby jillkilsby2012@live.co.uk with any queries.  The cost is £5 for HA and Central London Branch members and £9 for non-members.

 

Saturday 28 February 2026

The East India Company’s commissions for Westminster Abbey

Dr Jennifer Howes, Art Historian

The talk is based on Dr Jennifer Howes’ new book The Art of A Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector

 

Saturday 9 May 2026

‘Scholarship boys and girls revisited’. Popular narratives about positive grammar school education and how they might be revised.

Prof Peter Mandler, Gonville and Caius Cambridge

 

Saturday 6 June 2026

Who did Henry VIII think he was?

Prof Steven Gunn, Merton Oxford