We hope that the vast bulk of the meetings will be live at St. Nicolas Hall but we will finalise plans in the light of the latest covid background in mid-September. (Please watch out for confirmatory e mails). Options range from live meetings to Zoom or some combination of the two but it would greatly…
Author: Derek Linney
2021-22 Programme
28 September 2021 Professor John Blair, Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology, Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Was there such a place as Medieval England? In his Building Anglo-Saxon England, Professor Blair radically changed perceptions by analyzing hundreds of recent excavations that enable historians to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built…
Chairman’s Newsletter February 2021
The series of Zoom lectures that began in September as our safest and only permissible response to the Covid situation have provided some excellent presentations. One advantage of using Zoom is that the PowerPoint presentations can be seen with amazing clarity. One lecture suffered to a degree by an inadequate microphone on the presenter’s PC….
November 2020 Lecture Report – Race, Region and Rebellion
Race, Region and Rebellion: The Origins of the American Civil War 1846-1861 by Prof Lawrence Goldman, University of London. The American civil war lasted for 4 years, in which 700,000 Americans lost their lives. The Battle of Gettysburg had armies of 100,000 on both sides. One of the consequences of the American civil war, led…
October 2020 Lecture Report – Accidental Death in Tudor Surrey
Accidental Death in Tudor Surrey: How People Died Reveals Much About How They Lived by Professor Steven Gunn, Professor of Early Modern History, Merton College, Oxford. Professor Steven Gunn is currently leading a research project, looking into 9,000 inquests from the 16th century. One may think that these 16th century inquests are just routine reports…
September 2020 Lecture Report – Whose Heritage?
Whose Heritage? Imperial trophies and national treasures from the Elgin Marbles to the Benin Bronzes. Emeritus Professor Tony Stockwell, Royal Holloway College, University of London. 29 September 2020 The original trophies, that were bought back to Europe, originally came previous ancient eastern Mediterranean cultures, with the most well know being the Elgin marbles, and the…
2020-21 Programme
29 September 2020 Emeritus Professor Tony Stockwell, Royal Holloway College, University of London. Whose Heritage? Imperial trophies and national treasures from the Elgin Marbles to the Benin Bronzes. 20 October 2020 Professor Steven Gunn, Professor of Early Modern History, Merton College, Oxford. Accidental Death in Tudor Surrey: How People Died Reveals Much About How They…
Chairman’s Note on the 2020-21 West Surrey Historical Association Programme
One of the joys of studying history is that current issues that seem so overwhelming and novel are on reflection merely the latest variants of problems that have recurred in many different eras, geographic locations and very different cultural milieus. Often as the person responsible for putting together the branch programme (albeit with more than…
Chairman’s Update 9th July 2020
Following the abrupt termination of the 2019-20 programme, the branch committee have been striving to establish a way forward that is in compliance with both Government regulations and with the safety of our members and speakers in the year ahead. The good news is that there will be a full programme of eleven lectures including…
7th June 2022 Lecture – Cecily Neville, the 15th century’s most powerful matriarch
Annie Garthwaite. Author of the highly acclaimed historical novel CECILY. Hailed by some as the new Hilary Mantel. Cecily Neville, the 15th century’s most powerful matriarch. How to write a historical novel and how women exerted power and influence in the late Medieval period. Cecily-mother of two kings-Edward IV and Richard III, wife of the…