West Surrey Branch Programme 2024-25

 

 

Hon. Secretary: Rollo Crookshank. Telephone: 01252 319881. Email: crookshankrollo@gmail.com

Entry to meetings is free for HA members and students.  Associate membership of the branch which gives free entry to all meetings is £15 per year.  Non-members £5 per meeting, payable at the door. 

All meetings start at 7.30pm and will be held at St Nicolas’ Hall, Bury Street, Guildford, GU2 4AW. The nearest car park is Portsmouth Road Car Park (GU2 4BW). 

Branch website: www.historicalassociationsurrey.com  Twitter: @HAWestSurrey

 

24 Sept 2024

Prof. Richard Hoyle, Visiting Professor of Economic History at the University of Reading

Celebrating the end of the harvest in the mid-nineteenth century

 

15 Oct 2024

The Graham Searle Lecture

Prof. Colin Jones, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary, University of London 

"With terror riding pillion": A Duchess, Her Letters, and Confronting the French Revolution

12 Nov 2024

Dr. Emily Winkler, Lecturer in Medieval History, St Edmund Hall & Hertford College, University of Oxford

Rewriting History in the Central Middle Ages

10 Dec 2024

Dr. Alana Harris, Reader in Modern British History, King's College London  

Doing History in Public Places: Lessons from a Historic England Project on Europe’s Largest Psychiatric Cemetery, in Surrey

21 Jan 2025

Prof. Robert Gildea, Professor of Modern History, Worcester College, University of Oxford

Backbone of the Nation. Mining Communities & The Great Strike of 1984-85

25 Feb 2025

Prof. Natalia Nowakowska, Professor of European History, Somerville College, University of Oxford

The Jagiellonians (1377-1596): From Pagan Tribe to High Renaissance Dynasty

 

25 March 2025

Dr. Gillian Lamb, Lecturer in Modern British History, King's College London

A Brave “New” World? Juvenile emigrants as settlers 1850-1900

 

29 April 2025

Prof. Steven Gunn, Professor of Early Modern History, Merton College, University of Oxford

The Court of Henry VII

20 May 2025

Prof. Emma Griffin, Professor of British History, Queen Mary, University of London

Why was Britain first? Rethinking the history of the industrial revolution

 

Please check the HA and West Surrey branch websites for any changes or additions to the programme. Details of branch visits will be announced in due course.