Leicester Branch Programme

Leicester Branch Programme 

Leicester & Northampton Branches Joint Programme of Online Talks & Activities 2025-26

 

All talks are online and take place at 6pm-7.30pm. Booking is through Eventbrite.

Entry is free of charge.

All enquiries for Leicester Branch: Dr Alex Byrne. alexander.bryne@dmu.ac.uk

All enquiries for Northampton Branch: Professor Matthew McCormack. Matthew.McCormack@northampton.ac.uk

 

9 September 2025

Andy Chapman (Northamptonshire Archaeological Society)

Excavations at St James’s Abbey Northampton

To book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/excavations-at-st-jamess-abbey-northampton-tickets-1547995067919

 

14 October 2025

Professor Peter Ackers, Loughborough University

Trade Unions & the British Industrial Relations Crisis: Writing the Biography of Hugh Clegg

To book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trade-unions-the-british-industrial-relations-crisis-tickets-1548102168259?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2A1a9cumm%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTczNjMxNjUyOC4xNzU0OTA4OTkx%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AczE3NTQ5MDg5OTEkbzEkZzEkdDE3NTQ5MDkwMDAkajUxJGwwJGgw

 

18 November 2025

Bill Lindsay, Independent Scholar

Caroline Chisholm: Northampton's Victorian Humanitarian

To book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/caroline-chisholm-northamptons-victorian-humanitarian-tickets-1548164735399?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2A1dwc2s2%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTczNjMxNjUyOC4xNzU0OTA4OTkx%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AczE3NTQ5MDg5OTEkbzEkZzEkdDE3NTQ5MDkwMDIkajQ5JGwwJGgw

 

9 December 2025 Date TBC

HA Great Debate Heats in Leicester and Northampton

This year’s question: How important are personal and public records as evidence for explaining the story, or stories, of your local area?

 

10th February 2026

Prof Mark Rothery (UON) and Dr Alison Carrol (Brunel)

“A Source of the Greatest Anxiety”: Visions of a Channel Tunnel between England and France in the Late Nineteenth Century

To book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visions-of-a-channel-tunnel-in-the-nineteenth-century-tickets-1548336448999?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2A1gfxefe%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTczNjMxNjUyOC4xNzU0OTA4OTkx%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AczE3NTQ5MDg5OTEkbzEkZzEkdDE3NTQ5MDkwMDMkajQ4JGwwJGgw

 

17 March 2026

Nathen Amin

The Early Tudors

To book:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-early-tudors-tickets-1548380199859?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2A15duo5e%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTczNjMxNjUyOC4xNzU0OTA4OTkx%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AczE3NTQ5MDg5OTEkbzEkZzEkdDE3NTQ5MDkwMDQkajQ3JGwwJGgw

 

April – No meeting.

 

12 May 2024

Gillian Williamson, Independent Scholar

John London: A Black Georgian businessman, householder and voter

To book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-london-a-black-georgian-businessman-householder-and-voter-tickets-1548435144199?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2A15duo5e%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTczNjMxNjUyOC4xNzU0OTA4OTkx%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AczE3NTQ5MDg5OTEkbzEkZzEkdDE3NTQ5MDkwMDQkajQ3JGwwJGgw