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

24^th September 2025 7.30pm

Professor Selina Todd, University of Oxford

The First Women Doctors in Britain

 

15^th October 2025 7.30pm   

Professor Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol

Witch-hunting: Past and Present?

 

12^th 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

 

3^rd December 2025 7.30pm

Dr Andrew Foyle (author of the Bristol volume of Pevsner Guide to English Architecture)

Bristol’s own distinctive buildings

 

21^st January 2026 7.30 pm

Professor Ian Hamerton, University of Bristol

The Arts and Crafts Movement – "What You Can Remember Is Your Own, What You Sketch You Steal” Exploring C.F.A. Voysey’s individual approach to decorative design

 

 

28^th January 2026 7pm

Annual Bristol HA Pub Quiz

(pub venue TBC)

 

11^th February 2026 7.30 pm

Dr Vivian Kong, University of Bristol

Multiracial Britishness in Hong Kong, 1910-45

 

18^th March 2026 7.30pm

Professor Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield

‘Politics is something outside everyday life’: Understanding democratic engagement in twentieth-century Britain

 

25^th March 2026

Extended afternoon A level History Conference

Topic TBC

 

29^th April 2026 7.30 pm

Professor Richard Grayson, Oxford Brookes University

The Easter Rising in Dublin and Cork, and its First World War Context

 

6^th May 2026 7.30pm

 Professor Adam Smith, American History, University of Oxford

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, and the long shadow of the Declaration of Independence  

 

24^th June 2026 7.30pm

Professor Meleisa Ono-George, University of Oxford

Amelia Newsham: Science, Art and The Making of Race