Nottingham Branch Programme
Nottingham Branch Programme 2023-24
To reserve a seat at a meeting, please email Chris Wrigley a week before the meeting at chris.wrigley@nottingham.ac.uk
Meetings are held at 2.00pm on Wednesdays in Bromley House Library, Angel Row, Nottingham (with your back to the City Hall, the Library entrance is on the left, not far from the Square and is between Barnardo’s and MSR Newsagents), unless otherwise stated. Bromley House is a listed building and, as yet, does not have lift access. Access to Bromley House is available only from 30 minutes before the lecture, and to the lecture room 15 minutes before.
13 September 2023
Warren Hastings, the ‘’Fourth Estate’’ and the speeches of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, politician and playwright
Professor Martyn Powell (Bristol University)
18 October 2023
Bears in Shakespeare’s England
Professor Hannah O’ Regan (Nottingham University)
8 November 2023
A Place to Rest … in Peace (The history of two central Nottingham cemeteries}
Kevin Powell
14 February 2024
Locations of Danger or Delight? Elite women and the garden in early modern England
Dr Ruth Larsen (Derby University)
27 March 2024
Sir Edward Grey and the making of Modern Britain
Professor TG Otte (University of East Anglia)
29 May 2024
Foresters, Hunters, and Trespassers: Women in the Medieval English Forest
Professor Louise Wilkinson (Lincoln University)