Cardiff Branch Programme 2018/2019

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Exploring the Past: Free Lecture series

In collaboration with the Historical Association

All lectures are free and open to all.

Start time: 7.15 p.m.

Venue: Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning, 21 - 23 Senghennydd Road, Cardiff CF24 4AG (next door to the Sherman Theatre).

2018

September 19th

Professor Madeleine Gray (University of South Wales)

Cross Slabs and Closet Catholics: Tomb carvings in Medieval and Post-Medieval Wales

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October 24th

Dr Dimitra Fimi (Cardiff Metropolitan University)

Halloween in Children's Fantasy, and its 'Celtic' links

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November 21^st

Professor Steve Poole (University of the West of England)

Whose Heritage is it anyway? Memorialising British Protest Movements, 1792-1840

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December 12th

Pierre Gaite (Cardiff University)

A Forgotten Brotherhood?  The Household Knights of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (1329 - 1369)

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2019

January 23rd

Dr Ryland Wallace (Coleg Gwent)

The Women's Suffrage Movement in Cardiff

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February 13th

Dr Maria Fragoulakui (Cardiff University)

Leadership, Populism and Participation: Ancient and Modern Democracy

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March 20^th

Dr James Doherty (University of Bristol)

Pilgrim Knights: Independent Crusading in the Twelfth Century

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April 10^th

Professor Paul Nicholson (Cardiff University)

Views of an Antique Land: Images of Egypt and Palestine in the First World War

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May 15^th

Dr Marion Loeffler (Cardiff University)

Executed on Cardiff Heath: Judge Hardinge, two Martyrs, and the Merthyr Riots of 1800

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June 12th

Eileen Younghusband Memorial Lecture

Daniel Jewson (Exeter Univversity and Cardiff University)

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