All enquiries to: 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 £6 per meeting, payable at the door.  Meetings on Tuesday except where stated.

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

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Please check the HA and West Surrey branch websites for any changes or additions to the programme.

 

West Surrey Programme 2025-26

 

23 Sept 2025

The President’s Lecture

Prof. Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge

Persecution and toleration in England, 1500-1700

 

21 Oct 2025

Prof. Saliha Belmessous, British Academy Global Professor, University of Oxford

Empire and Obligation: Rethinking Colonial Relationships as Social Contracts (Insights from the British and French Empires, 19th–20th Century)

 

18 Nov 2025

Prof. Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford

The German Peasants' War: Why You Should Care About It

 

2 Dec 2025

Prof. Michael Fulford, Professor of Archaeology, University of Reading

Silchester: Recent Research on the Iron Age Town and Roman City

 

20 Jan 2026

Prof. Nigel Saul, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway, University of London

The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453: History and Myth

 

12 Feb 2026 (Thursday)

Prof. Jonathan Harris, Professor of the History of Byzantium, Royal Holloway, University of London

1054 and the Schism between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches

 

17 March 2026 - The Graham Searle Lecture

Dr. Jonathan Healey, Associate Professor in Social History, University of Oxford

The Blood in Winter. A Nation Descends 1642

 

21 April 2026

Dr. Michael Talbot, Associate Professor in the History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Middle East, University of Greenwich

From constitutionalism to catastrophe: The final decades of the Ottoman Empire

 

19 May 2026

Prof. Yasmin Khan, Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

 

Details of branch visits will be announced in due course.