Historical
Association, Essex Branch
Programme 2018/19
Talks on Saturdays,
2.30pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2XB
Visitors and
prospective members warmly welcomed - £3
2018
29 September
Building Utopia in Purleigh: the rise and fall of a late-Victorian
dream
Vic Gray, former Essex County Archivist
(There will be a short AGM before the talk.)
27 October
The Divorce of Henry
VIII: an untold story from inside the Vatican
Professor Catherine Fletcher, Associate Professor in History
and Heritage, University of Swansea
1 December
Treasures from the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
(talk to link with exhibition at British Library curated by
speaker)
Professor Joanna Story, University of Leicester
(Light seasonal
refreshments after the talk)
2019
12 January
The Weimar Republic and its difficult birth
Dr Eric
Boston, Director of Academic Liaison, Head
of Humanities, Head of History and Politics CATS Cambridge
2 February
The case of the Petrified Leg and other 18th-century
Medical Curiosities
Dr Lisa
Smith, Lecturer, Dept of History, University of Essex
2 March
Some ancient Greeks
in Roman Britain
Professor Edith Hall, Professor of Classics, King’s College,
University of London
6 April
‘Please Sir, I want
some more.’ What did they eat in Victorian Britain?
Dr Robert Hopkinson, former Head of History, Wolsingham
School, former Secretary, Durham HA Branch, and recent
Treasurer, Cumbria HA Branch
11 May
‘The March of the Women!’ The
Campaign for Women's Suffrage in Britain?
Dr Robert
Saunders, Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, Queen Mary College, University
of London
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www.history.org.uk and
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