Enquiries to Mr Alex Bristow alexjbristow@outlook.com  01903 505554

Meetings start at 7.30 pm (except January at 2.30 pm) at Friends Meeting House, Priory Road, Chichester, PO19 1NX. Meetings are expected to finish by 9 pm (4 pm on Saturday). Light refreshments available from 7 pm (2 pm on Saturday).

Admission is free to full HA members. Branch membership for the season costs £20 (£30 for couples). One-off attendance is £5 per meeting.

 

Chichester Branch Programme 2025-6 

Thursday 18^th September 2025

Dr Thomas Rodgers, University of Portsmouth

“Fears and Aspirations”: The transition from colonial rule to republic in the American Revolution.

 

Thursday 16^th October 2025

Dr Philip Woods, Author

Has the Burma Campaign in World War Two ever been a “Forgotten War”?

 

Thursday 20^th November 2025

Professor Penelope Corfield, Royal Holloway, University of London

The 18^th Century spread of the egalitarian handshake.

 

Thursday 18^th December 2025

Branch Annual General Meeting (followed by 3 short talks)

 

Saturday 17^th January 2026 at 2.30pm

Dr Helen Paul, University of Southampton

The Swing Riots of 1830

 

Thursday 19^th February 2026

Dr Patrick Hagopian, Lancaster University

The My Lai Massacre in the Vietnam War

 

Thursday 19^th March 2026

Dr David Gwynn, Royal Holloway, University of London

Constantine the Great: Rome’s first Christian Emperor?

 

Thursday 16^th April 2026

26^th John Fines Memorial Lecture.

Professor David Carpenter, King’s College London

How can we know the character of a Medieval King? The case of King Henry III (1216-1272)

 

 

Thursday 21^st May 2026

Professor Craig Lambert, Southampton University

Who was William Fowler? Sir John Hawkins, the English slave trade and an interconnected Europe, c. 1550-1580

 

Thursday 18^th June 2026

Professor June Purvis, University of Portsmouth

The Suffragette Movement in Edwardian Britain