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Publication date: 12th July 2010 by Joan Donaldson

Birmingham Branch Programme 2010-11

The Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line Canal between the International Convention Centre (left), Brindleyplace (right), and Broad Street Tunnel (ahead) in central Birmingham, England. A part of the canal originally called Deep Cutting.
The Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line Canal between the International Convention Centre (left), Brindleyplace (right), and Broad Street Tunnel (ahead) in central Birmingham, England. A part of the canal originally called Deep Cutting.

Birmingham Branch 2010 - 2011 programme

Lecture series: Scandal and Reproach

All lectures 6pm Tuesdays at The Open University, 66 High Street, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9NB.

 

26 October 2010 Shaun Aston, Strode's College, Egham: ‘Racial and Religious Conscientious Objectors and the Vietnam War'

 

23 November Trevor Fisher: ‘Were the guilty men really guilty? The implications of the 1940 pamphlet on appeasement by Michael Foot and others'

 

Also in 2010: 5 December ‘Decision at Derby: the fate of the Jacobite invasion of 1745' Coach trip on the 265th anniversary of the Jacobite arrival in Derby, with guided walk, talks, lunch and refreshments

 

2011

18 January  Michael LoCicero, University of Birmingham: ‘The interwar controversy over the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele)'

 

15 February Peter Gray, University of Birmingham: ‘Churchill and the Bombing of Dresden 1945'

 

15 March Carol Southworth, University of Birmingham: ‘Reproaching the Clergy: accusations, scandal and persecution in the Church on the eve of the Reformation'

 

12 April Dr Christopher Harrison, University of Keele: ‘The Castlehaven trials of 1631: scandalous behaviour in an aristocratic household'

 

May - the eighth Eric Hopkins Memorial Lecture (date and topic to be confirmed)

 

For more details contact the Branch Secreatry: Mark Wilson markwi20@hotmail.com