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…
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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.
Tuesday 14 November 2023: Elizabethan Dreams
Prof. Helen Hackett, University College London. Professor Hackett’s lecture will be based on part of her recent book, The Elizabethan Mind, which explores the nature and scope of the mind as thought about by people in the second half of the sixteenth century. More about The Elizabethan Mind: “What is the mind? How does it…
Tuesday 17 October 2023: The Gentleman’s Magazine: A Panorama of Georgian England
Julian Pooley, Surrey History Centre & The University of Leicester. Julian Pooley is Public Services and Engagement Manager at Surrey History Centre as well as Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester. Julian will deliver a lecture entitled The Gentleman’s Magazine: A Panorama of Georgian England, which will be richly embellished by his research into…
Tuesday 26 September 2023: The People of 1381
Prof. Helen Lacey, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Prof. Adrian Bell, University of Reading. The People of 1381 is an innovative new research project set to produce the most comprehensive interpretation of the Peasants’ Revolt to date. The revolt was one of the largest popular uprisings in medieval Europe and rocked the country in…
Notice for Visitors
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…
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….