Essex Branch Programme

The Arms of Essex

Meetings will be held in The Link, Trinity Methodist Church, Chelmsford.  Followed by tea/coffee and biscuits. Free parking at the Church or in the Essex County Council car-park opposite

Visitors and prospective members warmly welcome - a £2 donation is requested.

SATURDAY 3 October 2009, 2.30p.m.

Short AGM, followed by Andrew Senter, Victoria County History of Essex: The development of Dovercourt as a spa and seaside town in the 1850s

Andrew Senter is writing a PhD on the nineteenth-century history of Essex seaside resorts. He has researched and written on the seaside resorts of north-east Essex, including for the Victoria County History of Essex. He has also taught courses on the history of seaside resorts and bathing spas at the University of Essex.

SATURDAY 31 October 2009, 2.30p.m.

Mr Bob Hutchinson FSA, Sussex Univ. Centre for Continuing Education: The Last Days of Henry VIII

SATURDAY 5 December 2009, 2.30p.m.

To be arranged by members: A people's War - Reflections on WW2 on the 70^th anniversary of its outbreak.  Seasonal refreshments.

SATURDAY 9 January 2010, 2.30p.m.

Anne Curry, Professor of History, Southampton University, and President of the Historical Association: Women and Work in the Middle Ages

SATURDAY 6 February 2010, 2.30p.m.

Dr. Colin Haydon, University College, Winchester: Robespierre

SATURDAY 6 March 2010, 2.30p.m.

Professor Hugh Brogan, Essex University: Tammany Hall, the historical implications

SATURDAY 10 April 2010, 2.30p.m.

Dr. Bob Bushaway, Birmingham University: 1830-3: Captain Swing and the Rising of the Agricultural Labourers in Southern England and Sam Sharpe and the largest British slave revolt in Montego Bay, Jamaica:  Free and slave labour - a case of mistaken identity

FRIDAY 14 May 2010, 7.30p.m.

Dr. Herbert Eiden, Victoria County History of Essex: The Hurlyng Time: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381