Bristol Branch Programme

Please contact Mary Feerick Secretary Maryfeerick58@gmail.com or 0117 9442898 for further details.
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 2025-6
24th September 2025 7.30pm
Professor Selina Todd, University of Oxford
The First Women Doctors in Britain
15th October 2025 7.30pm
Professor Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol
Witch-hunting: Past and Present?
12th November 2025 7.30 pm
Professor Emeritus Sir Barry Cunliffe, University of Oxford
Emerging from the mud: The discovery of Roman Bath
2025-2026 November or June 6pm – 8pm
Sixth Form Pizza Quiz
Details TBC
3rd December 2025 7.30pm
Dr Andrew Foyle (author of the Bristol volume of Pevsner Guide to English Architecture)
Bristol’s own distinctive buildings
21st January 2026 7.30 pm
Professor Ian Hamerton, University of Bristol
The Arts and Crafts Movement – The work of Voysey or Benson
28th January 2026 7pm
Annual Bristol HA Pub Quiz
(pub venue TBC)
11th February 2026 7.30 pm
Dr Vivian Kong, University of Bristol
Multiracial Britishness in Hong Kong, 1910-45
18th March 2026 7.30pm
Professor Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield
‘Politics is something outside everyday life’: Understanding democratic engagement in twentieth-century Britain
25th March 2026
Extended afternoon A level History Conference
Topic TBC
29th April 2026 7.30 pm
Professor Richard Grayson, Oxford Brookes University
The Easter Rising in Dublin and Cork, and its First World War Context
6th May 2026 7.30pm
Professor Adam Smith, American History, University of Oxford
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, and the long shadow of the Declaration of Independence
24th June 2026 7.30pm
Professor Meleisa Ono-George, University of Oxford
Amelia Newsham: Science, Art and The Making of Race