Please contact Mary Feerick, Secretary Maryfeerick@gmail.com or 0117 9442898 with any enquiries. Annual branch membership is £15. All lectures are free to National HA members as well as University of Bristol staff & all students. Guests pay £5 on the door for a single lecture. Further details are available on our website https://bristolha.org or use Facebook and X feed.

Our lectures are normally held in Lecture Theatre B.H05LT on the ground floor of the Humanities Building at the University of Bristol,7 Woodland Road Clifton BS8 ITB at 7. 30 pm on a Wednesday and doors open at 6.45pm. There is paid parking outside the building on Woodland Road after 7pm.

Bristol Branch Programme 2026-7

16^th September 2026

The Lambeth Walk: Why Britain avoided political extremism in the 1920s and 30s

Dr Alwyn Turner, University of Chichester

 

14^th October 2026 Why did Men wear Wigs in 17^th Century Europe? 

Professor Evelyn Welch, Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol

 

11^th November 2026

Oliver Cromwell 

Professor Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol

 

9^th December 2026

Italian Fascism

Dr Amy King, University of Bristol 

 

20^th January 2027

Pub Quiz (Details TBC)

 

27^th January 2027

More of Bristol’s Distinctive Buildings 

Andrew Foyle

 

3^rd Feb 2027

No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976 -84

Professor Matt Worley, University of Reading

 

10^th March 2027

The British Industrial Revolution and the Making of the Modern World

Professor Emma Griffin, QMUL  

 

24^th March 2027

Black Civil Rights Conference

Led by Professor Brian Ward, University of Northumbria – other speakers to be confirmed

 

21^st April 2027

Who did Henry VIII think he was?

Professor Steven Gunn, Merton College, Oxford

 

5^th May 2027

How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Professor Caroline Pennock, University of Sheffield 

 

16^th June Pizza Quiz Quiz for Year 12s (Venue to be confirmed)