Birmingham Branch Programme

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 Branch of the Historical Association presents its 2009-10 lecture series.  This series will be on Faith and Doubt.

All lectures on Tuesdays at 6pm in Room 103, The Open University in the West Midlands, 66 High Street, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9NB.

10 November Professor Robert Swanson, University of Birmingham: ‘Faith, Doubt, and Diversity: Constructing and Policing Catholicism in the Late Medieval Ages'

8 December Dr Henry Cohn, University of Warwick: ‘Martin Luther and the Jews'

19 January 2010 Dr Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham, and her title is ‘Vernacular Religious Books from Medieval England: The Vernon Manuscript'

16 February Dr Michael Snape, University of Birmingham: ‘War, Religion and Revival: the United States, British and Canadian Armies during the Second World War'

16 March Dr Caterina Bruschi, University of Birmingham: ‘The sterotype of an inquisitor: Tuscan Franciscan Inquisition officials in the XIV century and anti-mendicant literature'

13 April Shaun Aston, Strode's College, Egham: ‘Racial and Religious Conscientious Objectors and the Vietnam War'

Contact for any queries: joan.donaldson@blueyonder.co.uk