Bristol Branch Programme
Bristol Branch Programme 2024-25
1st September 2024, 4-6pm
Dr Evan Jones University of Bristol
Via Dolorosa walk from Newgate Gaol to Bewell's Cross
25th September 2024 7.30pm
Dr Claire Knight
Joseph Stalin, Film Star: the Cult of Personality on Soviet Screens
23rd October 2024 7.30pm
Professor James Thompson University of Bristol
The First Labour Government – 1924
20th November 2024 7.30pm
Professor Kate Skinner University of Bristol
The Widow’s Wrath: inheritance struggles in postcolonial Ghana, West Africa
11th December 2024 7.30pm
Professor Ronald Hutton University of Bristol, MA (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS, FSA, FLSW, FBA
The History of Christmas
15th January 2025 7.30pm
Professor Martin Conway Balliol College Oxford
The History of the Present
29th January 2025, 7pm
Venue TBC
The Annual Bristol HA Quiz
Our Annual Pub Quiz to test your historical knowledge and raise money for the branch. Contact our treasurer if you can make up a team of four, or if not, we can help you find team-mates.
12th February 2025 7.30pm
Dr Richard Fisher Bristol University Research Fellow
Three Choirs and a Reformation: English Cathedrals under the Tudors
5th March 2025 7.30pm
Professor Simon Potter University of Bristol
Are you Sitting Uncomfortably? The BBC and Social and Cultural Change in Britain since the 1950s
2nd April 2025 7.30pm
Professor Alexandra Walsham University of Cambridge, Current President of the HA
Persecution and Toleration in England 1400-1700
7th May 2025 7.30pm
Dr Daria Mattingley University of Chichester
Nikita Khrushchev and Ukraine
11th June 2025 7.30pm
Rob Pritchard Bristol HA
The Bristol Blitz and The John Penny Archive
Please contact Mary Feerick Secretary maryfeerick58@gmail.com or 0117 9442898 for further details or use our website https://bristolha.wordpress.com
Annual branch membership is £15. All lectures are free to National HA members as well as University of Bristol staff & all students. Guests pay £3 on the door for a single lecture. Further details are available on our website https://bristolha.wordpress.com, Facebook and Twitter feed.
Our lectures are normally held in Lecture Theatre B.H05LT on the ground floor of the Humanities Building at the University of Bristol,7 Woodland Road Clifton BS8 ITB, and doors open at 6.45pm for a 7.30pm lecture.