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Chairman’s Newsletter – August 2022
Dear Members and Friends, I must start this newsletter by extending my thanks to Chris Mitchinson for his decade long stint as chair which is coming to an end this summer. I am sure that you will agree that he has been an excellent chair and has continued to discover ...
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Upcoming Lectures & Visits

Tuesday 20 September 2022: Checkmate in Berlin
Giles Milton on the topic of his book Checkmate in Berlin. Mr. Milton is a Fellow of the Royal Historical ...
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Tuesday 18 October 2022: The New Aristocracy of Talent in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Professor Penelope Corfield is President of the International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, as well as Emeritus Professor at Royal ...
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Tuesday 15 November 2022: The Gentleman’s Magazine
Julian Pooley is Public Services and Engagement Manager at Surrey History Centre as well as Visiting Fellow at the University ...
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Tuesday 6 December 2022: The Marshall Plan – Zoom Lecture
Our last lecture of the year will see Professor David Stevenson from the London School of Economics discuss The Marshall ...
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Tuesday 17 January 2023: English Views of Joan of Arc
Professor Anne Curry, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, returns to the branch for the first ...
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Tuesday 21 February 2023: Uncivil Peace: Politics, Repression and Memory in Spain since 1939
In February we turn to a subject that has been somewhat neglected in previous programmes: Twentieth Century Spain. Dr David ...
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Tuesday 21 March 2023: Conquered: Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
Dr Eleanor Parker of Brasenose College, Oxford, will deliver a lecture on the subject of her recent book, Conquered: Last ...
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Tuesday 25 April 2023: Sir Robert Peel, the Corn Laws and the Crisis of Conservatism
Another popular former speaker, Dr Robert Saunders, returns. Having previously spoken to us about Chartism – when he unforgettably broke ...
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Tuesday 16 May 2023: Contesting the Royal Succession in Mid-Tudor England
The Tudors are always a popular subject with branch members and school visitors alike, and Professor Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, ...
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Tuesday 13 June 2023: The Assassination of Alexander II
The 2022/23 programme will conclude with Dr Daniel Beer considering The Assassination of Alexander II. Based at Royal Holloway, University ...
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