Winchester Branch Programme

All enquiries to Branch Secretary Eleanor Yates – email historicalassocwinchester@outlook.com or text or call 07973 427915
Lectures will be at 7.30pm. Unless otherwise stated, the venue is The Science Lecture Theatre, Kingsgate Street, Winchester SO23 9PG, and sometimes online additionally.
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 (History Researcher)
Preceded by Branch AGM
This meeting will also be available on Zoom. Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpcOqtqj0oGtEczKkGLXzCGdK8cTFnKbut#/registration
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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, his Enemies, and the Outbreak of the English Civil War
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
This meeting will also be available on Zoom. Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HB_TzDQyQvi1VUDlHJ3cvg
Wednesday 12 February 2025
“God’s great book in folio”: science and the sacred in late medieval and early modern Europe
Dr Helen Parish (Senior Tutor, Worcester college Oxford, and formerly Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Reading)
This lecture is to suit the A Level syllabus
Dr Parish’s research and teaching explores the history of belief, broadly understood, in the late medieval and early modern period. This includes the history of the European Reformations, church and clergy, as well as ideas about magic, witchcraft and the supernatural, and the connections between religion and natural history.
You are invited to her lecture at the Science Lecture Theatre, Winchester College, which will also be on Zoom at 7:30 PM (Greenwich Mean Time)
Register in advance for this meeting on Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SfVv3QOkTQqKBRWxme8fwA#/registration
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.
This lecture will be held in Winchester College Science School, Kingsgate Road, WINCHESTER, SO23 9PG at 7.30pm. There is parking by the Science School and disabled access. Please ask if you'd like directions.
The lecture will be given in person and also by Zoom. Details below.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025 7:30 PM Greenwich Mean Time
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/OWpzSMDlTjuUVM8UlxgiZA
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.