Announcements
Chairman’s Newsletter – August 2023
Dear Members and Friends, Hope that you have all had a good summer. After a year when the number of attendees at lectures has gradually increased, I am delighted to confirm our first post-pandemic programme to be held entirely in person at St. Nicolas Hall in Guildford. Please do share ...
2023-24 Programme
Tuesday 26 September 2023: The People of 1381. Prof. Helen Lacey, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Prof. Adrian Bell, University of Reading. Tuesday 17 October 2023: The Gentleman's Magazine: A Panorama of Georgian England. Julian Pooley, Surrey History Centre & The University of Leicester. Tuesday 14 November 2023: The ...
Membership 2023/24
Ahead of the start of this year's programme next month, we would appreciate it if those of you who intend to join as associate members for 2023/24 could pay your subscription and return your membership form as soon as possible. Note that if you are a national membership of the ...
Upcoming Lectures & Visits

Tuesday 17 October 2023: The Gentleman’s Magazine: A Panorama of Georgian England
Julian Pooley, Surrey History Centre & The University of Leicester. Julian Pooley is Public Services and Engagement Manager at Surrey ...

Tuesday 14 November 2023: The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty
Prof. Helen Hackett, University College London. What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These ...

Tuesday 5 December 2023: Enlightenment, Abolition and Emancipation. Rethinking the British Anti-Slavery Movement, 1780-1840
Prof. Lawrence Goldman, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Lawrence Goldman FRHistS is the former director of the Institute of ...

Tuesday 23 January 2024: Doing History in Public Places: Lessons from a Historic England Project on Europe’s Largest Psychiatric Cemetery, in Surrey
Dr. Alana Harris, King’s College London. Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The Friends of Horton Cemetery was awarded a ...

Thursday 15 February 2024: The assassination of Alexander II
Dr. Daniel Beer, Royal Holloway, University of London. Daniel Beer is Reader in Modern European History at Royal Holloway and ...

Tuesday 19 March 2024: The French Revolution: A Peasants’ Revolt
Prof. David Andress, University of Portsmouth. David Andress is a historian of the French Revolution, and of the social and ...

Tuesday 16 April 2024: Did Indigenous Peoples shape Europe’s Global Expansion?
Prof. Zoltán Biedermann, University College London. Zoltán Biedermann is a historian of early global interactions occurring in the context of ...

Tuesday 14 May 2024: ‘An Irish Louvain’: Memories of 1914 and the Moral Climate in Britain during the Irish War of Independence
Dr. Edward Madigan, Royal Holloway, University of London. When the British government declared war against Germany in August 1914, a ...