*If you wish to attend, you need to reserve a seat at a meeting, and to do so, please email Chris Wrigley a week before: chris.wrigley@nottingham.ac.uk

 

Meetings are held at 2pm 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 only available from 30 minutes before the lecture, and to the lecture room 15 minutes before.

 

 

Nottingham Branch Programme 2025-26 

 

 

 

5 November 2025

Chartism in Nottingham

Julian Atkinson (chair of Notts and Derbyshire Labour History Society)

 

21 January 2026

What’s in a name? Naming the enslaved in late antiquity

Professor Jamie Wood (Lincoln University)

 

11 March 2026

1708! Life in Queen Anne’s London

Professor David Fairer (Leeds University)

 

1 April 2026

Roman curse tablets in the Trent Valley (title to be confirmed)

Dr Jane Ainsworth (Leicester University Classics Hub)

 

8 April 2026

War against the Idols: Iconoclasm and the Reformation

Professor Alexandra Walsham (Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and President of the Historical Association)