Essex Branch Programme

Essex Branch Programme 2024 - 25

Talks on Saturdays, 2.30pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2XB. Please check the calendar on this website for details.

Visitors and prospective members warmly welcomed - £3, Associate Members fee £10.00 / £15.00 for 2 members at same address

Branch Contact: Tony Tuckwell 01245 256423 tony@tuckwell.eclipse.co.uk

21 September 2024

Annual General Meeting, followed by

The Witch Trials of Chelmsford

Mike Dodsworth, Storyteller

12 October 2024

Essex Agricultural Protest: The Captain Swing Riots: 1830-1: Men of Bad Character

Jef Page, Lecturer and tour guide

7 December 2024

DEBATE

Causes of the American Civil War (1) Bleeding Kansas-Whose side are you on Butternuts?

Martin Frampton and John Edgar

(Light seasonal refreshments after the talk)

2025

11 January 2025

Charles II’s revenge on the men who killed his father – retribution or justice?

Don Jordan. Co-Author, “The King’s Revenge”

8 February 2025

The Zulu War – 10 Things you (maybe) didn’t know

Dave McCall, (Author: David Ebsworth: The Kraals of Ulundi)

22 March 2025

What have the Normans ever done for us?

Professor David Bates. University of East Anglia

26 April 2025

Alfred the Great and Late Anglo-Saxon England

Dr. Eric Boston. C.A.T.S. College, Cambridge

17 May 2025

The North Sea Floods of 1953

Cherry Boroughs (Author: The Farmer & the Fury)