Two of the lectures this year are having to be swapped, due to unforseen circumstance. The new dates are: Tuesday 18 October 2022 Prof. A. Curry – English views of Joan of Arc from the 15th to 21st centuries. Tuesday 17 January 2023 Prof. P. Corfield – The New Aristocracy of Talent in Eighteenth-Century Britain….
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Branch AGM – 12th September 2022
The AGM of the Branch will be held at 7.30pm on Monday, 12 September. This will be held in accordance with the procedures set out by the Historical Association and, as last year, will be a Zoom Meeting of the Branch Committee. The Agenda is set out below. Any member of the Branch who wishes…
2022-23 Programme
We start on Tuesday 20 September with Giles Milton on the topic of his book Checkmate in Berlin. Mr. Milton is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a renowned author who specialises in narrative history. The Times described Milton as being able to “take an event from history and make it come alive”….
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 new and engaging lecturers, even…
Tuesday 14 May 2024: ‘Britannia’s Huns’: British Responses to the Irish War of Independence, 1919 – 1921
Dr. Edward Madigan, Royal Holloway, University of London. The moral authority Britain gained during the First World War was undermined by the behaviour of the Crown Forces during the Irish War of Independence. [Madigan, E. (2021). Britannia’s ‘Huns’. History Today, 71, 28 – 39]
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 “European expansion” especially in Asia. He joined UCL in 2013 to help set up the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies programme while also expanding the provision of historical contents. His focus is on early modern diplomacy,…
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 cultural history of conflicts in Europe and the Atlantic world more generally in the period between the 1760s and 1840s. He has written a number of books, of which the best-known is probably The Terror,…
Thursday 15 February 2024: The assassination of Alexander II
Prof. Daniel Beer, Royal Holloway, University of London. Daniel Beer is Professor of Modern European History at Royal Holloway and a specialist on Russia. He has published widely on the social and cultural history of the Russian Empire and has a particular interest in crime and punishment. On 13 March [1 March, Old Style], 1881,…
Tuesday 23 January 2024: The Inedible Middle Ages: Food, Status and Performance in Medieval Society
Professor Andrew Jotischky from Royal Holloway. ———————————————————— Resume from Royal Holloway website: I am an historian of medieval religion and culture, with particular interests in and the relationship between belief and lived experiences, and how religious institutions in the Middle Ages worked. My research and teaching covers most of medieval Europe, but I have particular…
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 Historical Research. A former editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.






