Winchester Branch Programme 2024-25

  

All enquiries to Branch Secretary Eleanor Yates – email historicalassocwinchester@outlook.com or text or call 07973 427915

Lectures will be at 7.30pm. The venue is The Science Lecture Theatre, Kingsgate Street, Winchester SO23 9PG

Lectures are free to members and students, visitors are asked for a donation of £5

 

Wednesday 2 October 2024

Rethinking 1807: Britain's Struggle to Abolish the Atlantic Slave Trade

Professor John Oldfield (Emeritus Professor of History and Emancipation, University of Hull: Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation)

 

Wednesday 13 November 2024

Rivalry and Rulership: Queenship in the Angevin Domains 1135-1246

Dr Gabrielle Storey (Visiting Research Fellow, University of Winchester)

Preceded by Branch AGM

 

Wednesday 4 December 2024

How did the Hundred Years' War end? Charles VII’s campaign to reconquer Normandy (1449-1450)

Dr Rémy Ambühl (Associate Professor in Medieval History, University of Southampton)

 

Wednesday 22 January 2025

Charles I

Dr Jonathan Healey (Associate Professor in Social History, University of Oxford)

This lecture has been arranged to mark the 400th anniversary of the accession of Charles I.

Date and exact title to be confirmed.

 

Wednesday 12 February 2025

Title & speaker to be arranged

 

Wednesday 12 March 2025

The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government

Dr David Torrance

This lecture has been arranged to mark the centenary of Ramsay MacDonald's first ministry from January to November 1924.

 

Friday 16 May 2025

Why is Henry III's Magna Carta of 1225 more significant than King John's of 1215?

Professor David Carpenter (Professor of Medieval History, King's College, London)

This lecture has been arranged to mark the 800th anniversary in 2025 of the 1225 charter.