Hertfordshire Branch Programme 2024-25

Meetings are held at the Backhouse Room, 116 Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL8 6SZ at 3.00pm

Meetings are free for members, £3 for visitors. Associate branch membership £15 per season.

For more information contact Barbara Wiltshire barbarag.wiltshire@btinternet.com or telephone 01438 716020

 

Saturday September 14^th 2024

John Cabot and early Bristol exploration - a modern mystery story

Margaret Condon, University of Winchester

 

Saturday October 12^th, 2024

History of the Boer War

Roger Thompson

 

Saturday November 2^nd, 2024

Bismarck

Eric Boston, Cambridge College of Arts and Technology

 

Saturday December 14^th, 2024

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Nick da Costa

 

Saturday January 11^th, 2025

Did Victorian England fail: the case of agriculture?

Stephen Pam

 

Saturday February 8^th, 2025

Gandhi versus Churchill: Triumph and Disaster at the End of the Raj

Peter Popham

 

Saturday March 15^th, 2025

‘Persecution and Toleration, 1500-1700’

Alexandra Walsham, Emmanuel College Cambridge

 

Saturday April 26^th. 2025

George Percy and Jamestown – the birth of English America

Mark Nicholls, St John's College, Cambridge