Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 12th November 2026

Time: Note earlier start time - Doors open 5.15pm Lecture 5.30-7pm

Venue: Hunnyhill Room Riverside Centre, The Quay, Newport, PO30 2QR

Description: Dr Angela McShane is Honorary Reader in History at the University of Warwick. A social and cultural historian, she is researching the political world of the broadside ballad, the cultural history of intoxicants, and the material culture of the everyday. Her talk will explore the role of the ballad in the particular context of the Islands historic role holding captive Charles I, alongside his daughter Princess Elzabeth, during the English Civil War.

Price: Talks free to Associate branch members, National HA members and Students, visitors £3.

Email: jacobscme@gmail.com

Lecturer: Dr Angela McShane, Warwick University

Region: South-East England

Branch: Isle of Wight