Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 17th October 2025

Time: 7.30pm for AGM, 8pm for talk

Venue: Lecture theatre, Reading School, Erleigh Road, Reading RG1 5LW (cars enter through Erleigh Rd entrance - contact Chris Sexton for the gate code)

Description: This year marks the 220th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar, an iconic moment in British naval history. By focusing on the engagement at Trafalgar and the earlier one against the Armada, this lecture seeks to establish how, why and when England came to rule the waves.

How to book: Branch suppers precede each lecture from 6pm (cost £20 per person) and are held in the school’s refectory.

Price: HA members, students and school pupils free. Non-members visitors £3. Associate branch membership £10 per annum.

Tel: 01344 779321 or 07957 184342

Email: sexton44@gmail.com

Organiser: Chris Sexton

Lecturer: Dr Frank Tallett, formerly Head of the School of Humanities, University of Reading

Comments: Dr Tallett was formerly Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading. He has produced two books on early-modern warfare as well as an HA podcast on the Thirty Years War. Additionally he has co-authored with Professor Nicholas Atkin 'Pries

Region: South-East England

Branch: Reading