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.

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 265^th 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