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. 

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.

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Bristol Branch Programme 2025

15 January 2025 7.30pm
Professor Martin Conway Balliol College Oxford
The History of the Present

29 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.

12 February 2025 7.30pm
Dr Richard Fisher Bristol University Research Fellow
Three Choirs and a Reformation: English Cathedrals under the Tudors

5 March 2025 7.30pm
Professor Simon Potter University of Bristol
The BBC and "Soft Power", 1922 to the Present 

2 April 2025 7.30pm
Professor Alexandra Walsham University of Cambridge, Current President of the HA
Persecution and Toleration in England 1400-1700

7 May 2025 7.30pm
Dr Daria Mattingley University of Chichester
Nikita Khrushchev and Ukraine

11 June 2025 7.30pm
Rob Pritchard Bristol HA
The Bristol Blitz and The John Penny Archive