West Surrey Branch Programme 2025/26
Entry to meetings is free for HA members and students. Associate membership of the branch which gives free entry to all meetings is £15 per year. Non-members £6 per meeting, payable at the door. Meetings on Tuesday except where stated.
All meetings start at 7.30pm and will be held at St Nicolas’ Hall, Bury Street, Guildford, GU2 4AW. The nearest car park is Portsmouth Road Car Park (GU2 4BW).
23 Sept 2025 – The President’s Lecture – Prof. Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge – Persecution and toleration in England, 1500-1700.
21 Oct 2025 – Prof. Saliha Belmessous, British Academy Global Professor, University of Oxford – Empire and Obligation: Rethinking Colonial Relationships as Social Contracts (Insights from the British and French Empires, 19th–20th Century).
18 Nov 2025 – Prof. Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford – The German Peasants’ War: Why You Should Care About It.
2 Dec 2025 – Prof. Michael Fulford, Professor of Archaeology, University of Reading – Silchester: recent research on the Iron Age Town and Roman City.
20 Jan 2026 – Prof. Nigel Saul, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway, University of London – The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453: History and Myth.
12 Feb 2026 (Thursday) – Prof. Jonathan Harris – Professor of the History of Byzantium, Royal Holloway, University of London – 1054 and the Schism between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches.
17 March 2026 – The Graham Searle Lecture – Dr. Jonathan Healey, Associate Professor in Social History, University of Oxford – The Blood in Winter. A Nation Descends 1642.
21 April 2026 – Dr. Michael Talbot, Associate Professor in the History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Middle East, University of Greenwich – From constitutionalism to catastrophe: The final decades of the Ottoman Empire.
19 May 2026 – Prof. Yasmin Khan, Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford – The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan.