Welcome to the West Surrey Branch of the Historical Association

Ahead of the start of this year's programme next month, we would appreciate it if those of you who intend to join as associate members for 2026/27 could pay your subscription and return your membership form as soon as possible.Note that if you are a national member of the Historical ...

We are pleased to announce our lecture programme for 2026-27. Tuesday 15 Sept 2026 Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War Prof. Lyndal Roper, Emeritus Regius Professor of History, Oriel College, University of Oxford. We start the programme by looking at one of Europe's most explosive mass uprisings ...

Prof. Lyndal Roper, Emeritus Regius Professor of History, Oriel College, University of Oxford. We start the programme by looking at ...

We will be holding our first branch Quiz Night this October.  We hope that lots of you will come along for ...

Prof. Max Edling, Professor of Early American History, King's College London. The 1776 Declaration of Independence is sometimes viewed as ...

Prof. Mike Braddick, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford. For centuries, the local miller was one of ...

Prof. John Watts, Professor of Later Medieval History, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. The Wars of the Roses are ...

Prof. Lucy Wooding, Professor of History, Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Henry VIII’s break with Rome is one of the ...

Prof. Benedetta Rossi, Professor of History, University College London. While global histories of abolition frequently focus on Western activists, a ...

Dr. Elizabeth Drayson, Emerita Fellow in Spanish, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Western civilization is frequently described as having ...

Prof. Helena Hamerow, Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. How did a medieval society feed ...

Prof. Jane Hamlett, Professor of Modern British History, Royal Holloway, University of London. Today, Britain is known as a nation ...