Website: http://www.ha-plymouth.org.uk

Contact: Alan H. Cousins, 1 Russell Court, Russell Close, Saltash PL12 4LZ , Tel. 01503 230106 a.cousins345@btinternet.com

Meetings are open to all, and are free for national or local members of the Historical Association, and for University of Plymouth students.

Visitor tickets: £6, concessions £4.

Local annual membership rates: Individual membership: £8, Family membership: £12

Student membership: £4

Membership secretary: John Stead, 2 Jessops, Plympton, Plymouth, PL7 4HW

Booking for lectures:

The easiest approach is to book tickets online: plymouth.ac.uk/arts-institute, otherwise phone the Arts Institute Plymouth University T: 01752 585050 or email - theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk

Time & Venue: All talks start at 7pm and are held in Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA.

Circumstances may mean that one or more of the talks in the series will need to be streamed online.

 

Plymouth Branch Programme 2025

This is a joint programme in collaboration with the History Department at Plymouth University

Tuesday 28 January 2025
Public Health in Plymouth 1926-34
Dr Mike Sheaff, Visiting Research Fellow, Plymouth University

Dr Austen Nankivell became Plymouth’s Medical Officer of Health in 1925. Four years later the Conservatives lost control of the city council. An extraordinary period of change followed. From birth control to cancer services, and from child welfare clinics to establishing a municipal hospital, the city was at the forefront of radical progress in health care. This changed in 1932. With austerity policies in the ascendant, Conservatives regained control of the council, and Dr Nankivell was imprisoned for ‘gross indecency’. This talk, focusing on synergies between political and professional roles during his tenure, also considers connections between subsequent political conflicts and the criminal allegations against him.

 
Tuesday March 4
Dartmoor & government environmental policy (provisional subject)
Professor Matthew Kelly, Northumbria University

 
Tuesday March 25
Christopher Durston Lecture
Professor Catherine Richardson, University of Kent

Tuesday 29 April
Early 19^th century Louisiana: colonialism and the environment
(provisional subject)
Dr Camille Mathieu, University of Exeter