Hampstead & Northwest London Branch Programme

Bridge Hampstead Heath. Author Justin C. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0.

Historical Association - Hampstead & Northwest London Branch

Secretary: Hugh Hamilton, 2 Wild Hatch, NW117LD Tel 020 8455 8318 All meetings are held at 8.00pm at Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Visitors welcome: £3.00. Members of Fellowship House 50p There is no problem with parking. For directions see below.

2010

23 September Islam: Retreat and Resurgence. Ralph Blumenau

Sometime Head of History at Malvern College Ralph Blumenau now lectures at the University of the Third Age in the old Town Hall on Haverstock Hill on the history of Europe, to the delight of some of our members who attend.  He also covers other subjects - the history of philosophy and the history of the Jews. He recently gave an excellent lecture to the members of the North London Hospice support group.  He is the author of Philosophy and Living  (Imprint Academic)

21 October The Battle of Barnet 1471 Paul Baker

A City of London guide, Paul has made the battle one of his specialities. He leads walks around the battle site but on this occasion promises the battle without the walk.

25 November Cleopatra Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Lucy Hughes-Hallett, a critic and cultural historian,  has written "Heroes - Saviours, Traitors and Supermen" and "Cleopatra - Queen, Lover, Legend". She takes a biographical view of history and could just as well speak to us about Alcibiades, Drake, Garibaldi or Gabriele d'Annunzio. Does Cleopatra qualify as a Great Woman?  Was she to die for? 

2011

20 January 1759: the Year of Victories Dr John McAleer

Dr John MacAleer is Curator of 18^th century Imperial and Maritime History at the Royal Maritime Museum. He is an expert on the slave trade and its suppression, missionary work in the West Indies and the British presence at the Cape of Good Hope but this lecture will take a broader view of a turning point in British and world history. Illustrated.

24 February Humphrey Jennings - filming the Blitz.  Dr Adrian Smith.

A Senior lecturer at the University of Southampton Dr Smith has researched and published his work on a number of 20th Century subjects. Fires Were Started directed by Humphrey Jennings for the GPO Film Unit is the source of a great number of the mental images we have of the Blitz. The film is as extraordinary as was Jennings himself.

24 March Charles II Dr David L. Smith

David Smith is a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge and a historian of the seventeenth century. He is the author, or co-author, of eight books including those on Oliver Cromwell, the Stuart Parliaments and (hovering in the background of British history from 1643 onwards) Louis XIV.