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  tonytuckwell28@outlook.com   

Website: https://essexbranchha.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/essexha

Twitter: https://twitter.com/essex_ha

 

21 September 2024

Annual General Meeting, followed by

The Witch Trials of Chelmsford

Mike Dodsworth, Storyteller

 

 

12 October 2024

Attack on Farms & Rural Distress in 19th Century Essex

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 Show: Disasters after Rorkes Drift, Louis Napoleon’s story, the weird tale of John Dunn & how the Zulus conquered London

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)

 

For further information: www.history.org.uk   http://essexbranchha.blogspot.com

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