Chichester Branch Programme 2024-25

Enquiries to Mr Alex Bristow alexjbristow@outlook.com  01903 505554

 

All meetings start at 7.30pm except January at 2.30pm in the Friends’ Meeting House, Priory Road, Chichester PO19 1NX. Meetings are expected to finish by 9 pm (4 pm in January). Light refreshments are served from 7 pm (2 pm in January).

 

Admission to meetings is free for full HA members. Branch membership for the season costs £20 (£30 for couples). One-off attendance is £5 per meeting.

 

Thursday 13^th June 2024

Dr Andrew Smith, OMC London

Routes of Resistance: France, Britain and Legacies of the Second World War.

 

Thursday 19^th September 2024

Dr Michael Rowe, King’s College, London

Napoleon’s Empire: How it worked; who was in; and who was out.

 

Thursday 17^th October 2024

Professor David Tal, University of Sussex

The Origins and Development of the USA-Israel Relationship.

 

Thursday 21^st November 2024

Dr Edward Hampshire, Kings College London, and Naval Historical Branch Portsmouth.

The Royal Navy in the cold War Years 1966-1990: Retreat and Renewal.

 

Thursday 19^th December 2024

Annual General Meeting with Three Short Talks.

 

Saturday 18^th January 2025

Dr Danae Tankard, University of Chichester

Factionalism & Dissent in a Late 17^th Century City: Chichester 1678-1685

 

Thursday 20^th February 2025

Professor Adrian Smith, University of Southampton

Mountbatten: Viceroy, Empire and Cold War 1943-1979

 

Thursday 20^th March 2025: 25^th John  Fines Memorial Lecture:

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

Remembering the Reformation

 

Thursday 17th April 2025

Professor Marisa Linton, University of Kingston

Leaders of the French Revolution

 

Thursday 15^th May 2025

Dr Paul Flenley, University of Portsmouth

Russia and the West: The Origins of the Crisis in Relations

 

Thursday 19^th June 2025

Dr Nicola Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London

18^th Century Women’s Legal Disabilities and How They Got Round Them.