24th September Professor Jackie Eales, Canterbury Christ Church University & President of the Historical Association. ‘How Glorious Was Gloriana? Elizabeth 1 and her historians.’ 15th October Emeritus Professor Anne Duggan, King’s College London. ‘Thomas Becket: Traitor, Martyr, Saint?’ 12th November Dr.Jason Peacey, Senior Lecturer University College London. ‘Print, Participation and Political Corruption: the politics of…
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2012-13 25th September Professor Joe Maiolo, King’s College, London. ‘Why Stalin was surprised by Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941′ 9th October Dr Lawrence Goldman, St Peter’s College, Oxford. ‘Statesmanship and Evasion: Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.’ 13th November Professor David Stevenson, LSE. ‘The 1912 Balkan Wars and the coming…
August 2018 Newsletter
We look forward to an exciting programme of lectures in the 2018-9 season of the West Surrey Branch of the Historical Association. Before discussing the content of the lectures, there are two very important points that I request that you read carefully. The first is that the venue for the lectures in the remainder of…
CANCELLED 9th June 2020: Brexit and the Stretching of the Constitution
Brexit and the Stretching of the Constitution -The Brexit Shock in Historic Perspective by Dr Andrew Blick, Reader in Politics and Contemporary History and Director of the Centre for British Politics and Government, King’s College London. Based on his 2019 publication but updated as events unfold, How far did the European Union (EU) referendum result…
CANCELLED 19 May 2020, ‘When Does an Empire Truly End?
Tuesday 19 May 2020: ‘When Does an Empire Truly End? Exploring India’s Imperial Ties in the Decades after Independence’ – Speaker: Dr Taylor Sherman, Associate Professor, Department of International History (LSE) Dr Taylor Sherman’s research concerns the cultural and political history of India in the transition from colonial rule to independence in the middle decades of the…
CANCELLED 28 April 2020, ‘Accidental Death in Tudor Surrey’
Tuesday 28 April 2020‘Accidental Death in Tudor Surrey: How People Died Reveals Much About How They Lived’Speaker: Professor Steven Gunn, Professor of Early Modern History (Merton College, Oxford) “My research interests are in the political, social, cultural and military history of England and its continental neighbours from the mid-fifteenth to the later sixteenth century. I…
CANCELLED The Guildford Spike, Warren Road, Guildford – branch visit, Tuesday 31st March 2020
The Guildford Spike, linked with but deliberately separated from the nearby Guildford workhouse, was a ward for vagrants. In return for an overnight stay in squalid conditions, vagrants had to do basic manual work before, typically, going on their way to the next Spike. George Orwell gave a vivid picture of his experience of the…
CANCELLED 17 March 2020, ‘The Crisis of the Tudor Throne 1540-60’
Tuesday 17 March 2020: ‘The Crisis of the Tudor Throne 1540-60’ – Speaker: Dr Lucy Wooding, Langford Fellow and Tutor in History (Lincoln College, Oxford) “I have been interested in religious history since I was seventeen, when my history teacher lent me her copy of Jack Scarisbrick’s The Reformation and the English People. It was…
25 February 2020, ‘Aspects of American Foreign Policy in the Nuclear Age’
Tuesday 25 February 2020: ‘Aspects of American Foreign Policy in the Nuclear Age’ – Speaker: Dr Jonathan Hunt, Lecturer of Modern Global History (University of Southampton) “I study the history of U.S. foreign policy and international relations since 1945. I am from Austin, Texas, and earned my BA and PhD at the University of Texas at Austin….
21 January 2020, ‘Donald Trump in Historical Perspective’
Tuesday 21 January 2020: ‘Donald Trump in Historical Perspective’ – Speaker: Professor Tony Badger, President of the Historical Association (University of Northumbria) Tony is a historian of post-World War II American political history, and most notably the South. He has published widely on race relations, the Great Depression, and the New Deal. He was a…