Notice for Visitors to Lectures Admission is not guaranteed. We are pleased to be continuing the majority of lectures live in St Nicolas’ Hall. Some lectures may continue by Zoom – please check the website for information. In line with most venues we would ask that anyone suffering from Covid symptons or who has tested…
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The 2021-22 Programme-Chairman’s View
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…
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…
Tuesday 13 June 2023: The Assassination of Alexander II – CANCELLED
This lecture is cancelled ——————————- The 2022/23 programme will conclude with Dr Daniel Beer considering The Assassination of Alexander II. Based at Royal Holloway, University of London, Dr Beer is the author of two ground-breaking books on Imperial Russia and has a particular interest in crime and punishment. More recently Dr Beer has had a…
Tuesday 23rd 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, Oxford) will present a fresh perspective on the period in her lecture Contesting the Royal Succession in Mid-Tudor England which will feature her current research into the reigns of Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth I….
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 into song – and Margaret Thatcher, on this visit he will address “The scum gathers when the nation boils”: Sir Robert Peel, the Corn Laws and the Crisis of Conservatism. Dr Saunders is Reader in…
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 Children of Anglo-Saxon England. Dr Parker will take a novel angle on a well-covered period by focusing on the lives of children whose lives were turned upside down by the extraordinary events of 1066. Dr…
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….
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 Brydan from King’s College London will discuss Uncivil Peace: Politics, Repression and Memory in Spain since 1939. Dr Brydan is a member of the Centre for the Study of Internationalism as well as a Reviews…
Tuesday 17 January 2023: 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 Holloway, University of London. Following the publication of her wide-ranging new book, The Georgians, earlier this year, she will address The New Aristocracy of Talent in Eighteenth-Century Britain – and What it Meant.