Winchester Branch Programme


Winchester Branch Programme 2023-24

  

All enquiries to branch secretary Eleanor Yates – email eleanor.yates@ntlworld.com or text or call 07973 427915

Lectures will be at 8pm, except November & May at 7.30pm. The venue is The Science Lecture Theatre, Kingsgate Street, Winchester SO23 9PG

Lectures are free to members and students, visitors are asked for a donation of £3

 

Wednesday 11 October, 2023:

The American Revolution as an Imperial Event

Professor Stephen Conway (Professor of History, UCL)

 

Wednesday 8 November, 2023

Intelligence and Anglo-Irish Relations – The Long View

Preceded by Branch AGM

Dr Tony Craig (Associate Professor in Modern History, Staffordshire University)

 

Wednesday 29 November, 2023

Justice and the governance of England under the early Tudor kings, 1485-1547

Dr Laura Flannigan (Junior Research Fellow in History, St John's College, Oxford)

Lecture will be at 8pm and will be held at the Science Lecture Theatre, Winchester College, Kingsgate Street, Winchester, SO23 9PF, and online via Zoom. More directions from the Hon Secretary.

The link to the Zoom for this meeting is as below, but the committee would be very pleased to see you in person! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscu2rqD0vGdY7jhfj43DdQGqAQmdbQfKY

 

Wednesday 10 January,2024

Henry VI and the Origins of the Wars of the Roses

Dr James Ross (Reader in Late Medieval History, University of Winchester)

 

Wednesday 14 February, 2024

Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (Associate Professor of Soviet History, St Antony's College, Oxford)

 

Wednesday 13 March, 2024

Digging, weaving and dancing: notes from a global history of everyday creativity in Eastern Eurasia from 7th to 14th centuries

Professor Naomi Standen (Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Birmingham)

 

Friday 17 May, 2024

Persecution and Toleration in Britain 1400-1700 

Professor Alexandra Walsham (Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Professor of Modern History and President of the Historical Association)