Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 3rd November 2025

Time: 6.30pm

Venue: Sutcliffe Suite, Bolton School Girls’ Division, Bolton School, Chorley New Road, Bolton BL1 4PA. Free parking is available in the Girls Division Quad (access from Chorley New Road).

Description: Alberto Esu is Lecturer in Classical Greek History at the University of Manchester. He works on the relationship between institutions and political ideas and discourse in Ancient Greece, with a particular focus on the Athenian democracy of the Classical period. He has published on Ancient Greek law and oratory, Spartan politics, and Aristotelian political thought. His monograph, Divided Power in Ancient Greece: Decision Making and Institutions in the Classical and Hellenistic Polis, was published in 2024 by Oxford University Press.

How to book: All enquiries to Mrs Melissa Wright mwright@boltonschool.org.uk 07912369060

Price: Associate membership £20 per year. Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors £5.

Tel: 07912369060

Email: mwright@boltonschool.org.uk

Website: https://boltonhistoricalassociation.wordpress.com

Organiser: Melissa Wright

Lecturer: Dr Alberto Esu, University of Manchester, Classics and Ancient History

Region: North-West England

Branch: Bolton