Bristol Branch Programme 2024-25

1^st September 2024, 4-6pm

Dr Evan Jones University of Bristol

Via Dolorosa walk from Newgate Gaol to Bewell's Cross

 

25^th September 2024 7.30pm

Dr Claire Knight

Joseph Stalin, Film Star: the Cult of Personality on Soviet Screens

 

23^rd October 2024 7.30pm

Professor James Thompson University of Bristol

The First Labour Government – 1924

 

20^th November 2024 7.30pm

Professor Kate Skinner University of Bristol

West African divorce cases in Ghana between Wives and their in-laws  (TBC)

 

11^th December 2024 7.30pm

Professor Ronald Hutton Bristol University MA(Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS, FSA, FLSW, FBA

The History of Christmas

 

15^th January 2025 7.30pm

Professor Martin Conway Balliol College Oxford

The History of the Present

 

12^th February 2025 7.30pm

Dr Richard Fisher Bristol University Research Fellow

Three Choirs and a Reformation: English Cathedrals under the Tudors

 

5^th March 2025 7.30pm

Professor Simon Potter University of Bristol

Are You Sitting Uncomfortably? The BBC and Social

 

2^nd April 2025 7.30pm

Professor Alexandra Walsham University of Cambridge, Current President of the HA

Persecution and Toleration in England 1400-1700

 

7^th May 2025 7.30pm

Dr Daria Mattingley University of Chichester

Nikita Khrushchev and Ukraine

 

11^th June 2025 7.30pm

Rob Pritchard Bristol HA

The Bristol Blitz and The John Penny Archive

 

Please contact Mary Feerick Secretary Maryfeerick@gmail.com  or 0117 9442898 for further details or use our website https://bristolha.wordpress.com,

Annual branch membership is £15. All lectures are free to National HA members as well as University of Bristol staff & all students. Guests pay £3 on the door for a single lecture. Further details are available on our website https://bristolha.wordpress.com,  Facebook and Twitter feed.

Our lectures are normally held in Lecture Theatre B.H05LT on the ground floor of the Humanities Building at the University of Bristol,7 Woodland Road Clifton BS8 ITB.