Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme 2024-25

Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £2.00 per meeting. Local membership of the Branch is £14.00 per year.

All Meetings begin at 8pm and take place at Richmond Library Annexe, Quadrant Road, Richmond upon Thames,TW9 1DH. Quadrant Road is between Specsavers and Lloyds Bank on the Quadrant.

Meetings begin at 8pm

Enquiries: Richard Turk at richardgturk@yahoo.com or call 07958 729526

 

26^th September 2024

Dr Steve Tibble -Author & Historian

The Crusader Crimewave -Pirates, Gangsters and Bandits in the Holy Land

 

24^th October 2024

David Fleming -Author

The Beggar’s Opera: Crime and Corruption in Georgian London

 

28^th November 2024

Dr Faith Tibble -Author & Historian

‘The Crown of Thorns: An unlikely Triumph’- the iconography of a famed Medieval Relic.

 

23^rd January 2025

Dr Dormer – Art Historian & lecturer, Victoria & Albert Museum

Medieval Festivals: Picturing Feast Days &Holy Days

 

27^th February 2025

Dr Matthew Pope, Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Paleo-London: Early Humans and Ice Age fauna from our Capital City

 

27^th March 2025

Professor Tony Badger, Emeritus Paul Mellon Professor of American History, Cambridge University

 Why White Liberals fail, Race & Southern Politics from FDR to JFK

 

24^th April 2025

Professor Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History , Queen Mary College University of London

Fake news from Norfolk.c.1150 :an anti-Jewish fantasy and its consequences

 

22rd May 2025

Dr Daniel Cowling, Historian at the National Army Museum and Author

Don’t Let’s be beastly to the Germans: the British Occupation of Germany 1945-1949