Ealing Branch Programme
Ealing Branch Programme 2023-24
Meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month at Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT at 7.30pm, with the exception of the October meeting which takes place at Twyford School at 6.30pm
Members (£15 annual fee) and Visitors (£5 per talk) Students free.
Bookings for meetings are via Eventbrite. Meetings are live but usually recorded in Zoom and the recordings are made available after the meeting to those who have booked.’
Secretary: Dr Philip Woods tel: 0208 579 2174 Email: philipgwoods@outlook.com
For fuller and up-to-date details: www.ealinghistory.org.uk
12 September 2023
Why Wellington won-and Napoleon lost-the Battle of Waterloo
Professor Michael Clarke, Fellow of King’s College London, Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute
10 October 2023 at 6.30pm
Sixth Form Evening at Twyford CoE High School, W3 9PP
Russia’s Colonial Allergy, from Central Asia to Crimea
Dr Alexander Morrison, Fellow & Tutor in History, New College Oxford
14 November 2023
Elizabeth Sunley Memorial Lecture
Wargame Women: The Women’s royal Naval Service and the Western Approaches Tactical Unit During the battle of the Atlantic
Dr Sarah-Louise Miller, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, Lecturer Defence studies Department, King’s College London
12 December 2023
Branch AGM & Christmas Social
9 January 2024
Cnut the Great: King of the English
Professor Ryan Lavelle, Professor in Early Medieval History, University of Winchester
13 February 2024
In the Shadows and under the Cross: Roman Catholicism in Early Modern England
Professor Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College, President of the Historical Association
12 March 2024
The Arab Revolt in Palestine in the 1930s
Professor Matthew Hughes, Brunel University
9 April 2024
Who Formed Britain’s ‘New Aristocracy of Talent’ in the 18th Century – and What Did Their Advent Signify?
Emeritus Professor Penny Corfield, President of the International Society for 18th Century Studies
14 May 2024
Robespierre and the French Revolutionary Terror
Professor Marisa Linton, Professor Emerita, Kingston University London
11 June 2024
Anarchists, Fenians, Nihilists!: London and the First ‘Age of Terror’ 1867 – 1909
Dr James Crossland, Reader in International History, Liverpool John Moores University