Leicester Branch Programme
Leicester Branch Programme
Leicester & Northampton Branches Joint Programme of Online Talks & Activities 2026-27
All talks are online and take place at 6pm-7.30pm. Booking is through Eventbrite.
Entry is free of charge.
Enquiries welcome –
Leicester Branch: Dr Alex Bryne alexander.bryne@dmu.ac.uk
Northampton Branch: Professor Matthew McCormack Matthew.McCormack@northampton.ac.uk
13 October 2026
Dr Heena Heena (University of Leicester)
Beyond British Criticism: Religion, Print and Astrological Writings in Nineteenth-Century North India
10 November 2026
Steve Holder (Aberystwyth)
Northampton's medieval trade guilds: commerce, status and control in a regional capital
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northamptons-medieval-trade-guilds-tickets-2001070824704
8 December 2026
Steve Willis (independent scholar)
21 Mile Circle: Origins of America
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/21-mile-circle-the-origins-of-america-tickets-2001071434528
09 February 2027
Dr Sarah-Jane Walton (University of Leicester)
War, Cookbooks, and a Leicestershire Lass: Networks of Identity and Fundraising in First World War South Africa
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-cookbooks-and-a-leicestershire-lass-tickets-1997839097521
09 March 2027
Andrew Beckett (CWGC)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-commonwealth-war-graves-commission-tickets-2001071860803
11 May 2027
Dr Thomas Bishop, Dr Adam Page and Dr Jon Coburn (University of Lincoln)
Radioactive Lincolnshire: Fulbeck, Community Protest, and the Politics of Nuclear Waste in 1980s Britain