Bath Branch Programme 2024-25

Entry to lectures is free for national HA members and Bath branch local members who have paid an annual subscription. Visitors are welcome and are asked to pay £5 per lecture.

For more information please contact Mike Short, Branch Secretary, mikeshort20@btinternet.com or 01225 812945.

Lectures begin at 7.30 pm at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN.

The Bath branch website is www.historybath.org.

Programme for 2024-25

Thursday 26 September 2024
Empires of the Normans
Speaker: Professor Levi Roach (University of Exeter)

Thursday 24 October 2024
Recording War: IWM’s Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries
Speaker: Caro Howell (Director-General, Imperial War Museums)

Friday 8 November 2024
Branch Members’ Guided Tour of the Theatre Royal Bath

Thursday 5 December 2024
Fear and fake news: Britain and the first ‘Age of Terror’, 1881-1900
Speaker: Dr James Crossland (Liverpool John Moores University)

Wednesday 11 December 2024
Branch Members’ Christmas Celebration at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Special Guest: Alex Sherman (Chief Executive, Bath Preservation Trust)

Thursday 16 January 2025
Generations and the English Reformations
Speaker: Professor Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge), President of the Historical Association

Saturday 1 February 2025
Branch Members’ Second Guided Tour of the Theatre Royal Bath

Thursday 27 February 2025
Climate change and the new normal
Speaker: Dr Venus Bivar (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 March 2025
Branch Members’ Guided Tour of the Museum of Bath at Work

Thursday 27 March 2025
The ‘taint of “charity” children’: The British Government’s response to child victims of the Second World War and the establishment of residential nurseries
Speaker: Dr David Clampin (Liverpool John Moores University)

Thursday 24 April 2025
Enmity and violence in early modern Europe
Speaker: Professor Stuart Carroll (University of York)

Thursday 22 May 2025
Branch Members’ Visit to Aerospace Bristol