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Northampton Branch Programme
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Northampton Branch Programme 2024-25
Leicester & Northampton Branches Joint Programme of Online Talks & Activities 2024-25
Leicester Chair: Annabelle Larsen leicesterha@gmail.com
Northampton Chair: David Waller david@davidwaller.org.uk
Most talks will be on the second Tuesday of the month, 18.00-19.30.
10th September 2024. Dr Lubaaba Al-Azami, University of Liverpool. ‘In Conversation: Writing Travellers...
Northampton Branch Programme
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Bolton Branch Birthday
Bolton Branch News
Renowned historian Professor Sir Ian Kershaw joined the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association on 1 October 2007 to help celebrate their 80th anniversary. An audience of 185 people listened to his lecture on ‘The German People and the Persecution of the Jews', which examined the attitudes of the German...
Bolton Branch Birthday
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Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme
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Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £2.00 per meeting. Local membership of the Branch is £14.00 per year.
All Meetings begin at 8pm and take place at Richmond Library Annexe, Quadrant Road, Richmond upon Thames,TW9 1DH. Quadrant Road is between Specsavers and Lloyds Bank on the Quadrant.
Meetings...
Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme
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Portsmouth Branch Programme
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Portsmouth Branch Programme 2024-25
Venue for talks: Room 2.01 Park Building, King Henry I St, Portsmouth PO1 2BZ.
All talks start at 7pm and finish no later than 8.30pm.
Pay on arrival: £4 per lecture, or £20 for all lectures October to May. Students and HA members free. No need...
Portsmouth Branch Programme
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Sheffield Branch Programme
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Sheffield Branch Programme 2024-25
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Grayson Building, Birkdale School, Oakholme Road, S10 3DH. Entrance via the Endcliffe Crescent gate. Parking available.
Meetings are usually held on the first or second Thursday of the month, doors will open at 7pm and the lecture will start at 7.30pm promptly...
Sheffield Branch Programme
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HA Branches in the South West
Branch details by region
Bath Branch
Bath Branch Programme
Bristol Branch
Bristol is a very historic and lively city which was a pioneer in the HA.
What do we do? Lectures and walksWhere? University of Bristol, usually in the Woodland Road Arts Complex but please check the programme on the website for up to date...
HA Branches in the South West
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Hertfordshire Branch Programme
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Hertfordshire Branch Programme 2024-25
Meetings are held at the Backhouse Room, 116 Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL8 6SZ at 3.00pm
Meetings are free for members, £3 for visitors. Associate branch membership £15 per season.
For more information contact Barbara Wiltshire barbarag.wiltshire@btinternet.com or telephone 01438 716020
Saturday September 14th 2024
John...
Hertfordshire Branch Programme
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Bath Branch Programme
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Bath Branch Programme 2024-25
Entry to lectures is free for national HA members and Bath branch local members who have paid an annual subscription. Visitors are welcome and are asked to pay £5 per lecture.
For more information please contact Mike Short, Branch Secretary, mikeshort20@btinternet.com or 01225 812945.
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Bath Branch Programme
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West Wiltshire Branch Programme
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West Wiltshire Branch Programme 2024-25
Branch contact All enquiries to Mrs Jenny Ladd jladd242@gmail.com tel 01373 830514
Venue: All talks start at 7.30pm and take place in St. Thomas’ Church Hall, York Buildings, Trowbridge, Wilts. BA14 8PT. Free parking on the road, limited free parking next to Church.
Associate membership...
West Wiltshire Branch Programme
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Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
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Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme 2024-25
Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £2 for visitors.
Associate membership of the branch is £12 for 2024/25 or £19.50 with our monthly news bulletin, the Beckenham Historian.
All meetings take place at 7.45 pm in Christ Church Hall, Fairfield...
Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
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HA Branches in Wales
Branch details by region
Cardiff Branch
For further information about Cardiff Branch meetings, please see the programme link below.
Cardiff Branch Programme
Gwent Branch
For further information about Gwent Branch meetings, please see the programme link below.
Gwent Branch Programme
Swansea Branch
The ‘catchment area' of the Swansea Branch is south-west Wales (anywhere that...
HA Branches in Wales
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Nottingham Branch Programme
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Nottingham Branch Programme 2024-25
Meetings are held at 2pm on Wednesdays in Bromley House Library, Angel Row, Nottingham NG1 6HL, unless otherwise stated. (With your back to the City Hall, the Library entrance is on the left, not far from the Square and is between Barnardo’s and MSR Newsagents). Bromley...
Nottingham Branch Programme
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Lincoln Branch Programme
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Lincoln Branch Programme 2024-25
Branch contact: enquiries to Prof. Jamie Wood jwood@lincoln.ac.uk
Venue: All talks start at 6.15pm and take place at the Brayford Pool Campus of the University of Lincoln. Specific details of locations of the talks can be found on the booking page, accessible here: https://cityoflincolnbranchha.wordpress.com/lecture-programme-and-booking/.
Cost: talks...
Lincoln Branch Programme
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Oxford Branch Programme
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For any further information, please contact Dr Vivienne Larminie, branch secretary, email vivienne.larminie@history.ox.ac.uk
HA members free, non-members £2 per meeting. Annual associate membership £10 individual, £15 joint (living at same address), full-time students under 30, £6. School groups £10 per group.
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Tuesday 26 November
5pm...
Oxford Branch Programme
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Chichester Branch Programme
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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...
Chichester Branch Programme
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Hull & East Riding Branch Programme
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Hull & East Riding Branch Programme 2024-25
Branch Contact: Sylvia Usher (Branch Secretary) usher@usher.karoo.co.uk
Venue: The Nordic Centre, aka Danish Church, Osborne Street, Hull HU1 2PN. Small car park at the church. No charge for those attending meetings. On street parking also possible. Meetings are held on Thursdays, starting at...
Hull & East Riding Branch Programme
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Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch Programme
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Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch Programme 2024-25
All meetings are held at 11am on the second Saturday of the month at Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church Observatory Road, Glasgow West End G12 9AR.
For any branch enquiries please telephone Marie Davidson on 0141 956 1172
12 October 2024
Emile...
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Bristol and the Slave Trade
Classic Pamphlet
Captain Thomas Wyndham of Marshfield Park in Somerset was on voyage to Barbary where he sailed from Kingroad, near Bristol, with three ships full of goods and slaves thus beginning the association of African Trade and Bristol. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Bristol was not a place of...
Bristol and the Slave Trade
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Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare
Presidential Lecture - Annual Conference 2014
In Twelfth Night Shakespeare gently mocked the Puritans, who objected to stage plays and other entertainments. Yet within four decades, the Puritans had closed the London theatres and were about to seize power from Charles I. Among their many reforms were the banning of Christmas celebrations and of Twelfth Night itself....
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Women in Late Medieval Bristol
Classic Pamphlet
During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Bristol was one of England's greatest towns, with a population of perhaps 100,000 after the Black Death of 1348. Its status was recognised in 1373, with its creation as the realm's first provincial urban county, but only in 1542, with the creation of the...
Women in Late Medieval Bristol
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Prehistoric Bristol
Classic Pamphlet
This period is represented in the valley of the Bristol Avon by the Acheulian industries, named from the type station of St. Acheul in the Somme valley, which has yielded many ovate and pear-shaped hand-axes characteristic of the period. These industries flourished during the very long Second Interglacial phase, a...
Prehistoric Bristol
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Bournemouth, Christchurch, & Poole Branch Programme
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Bournemouth, Christchurch, & Poole
Branch Programme 2024-25
There is an admission charge of £5 for non- HA members and £3 for students at Monday lectures. Associate membership of the branch is £20 per year. Monday evening lectures take place at 7.25 pm at the West Cliff Hotel, Durley Chine Rd BH2...
Bournemouth, Christchurch, & Poole Branch Programme
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 5
Branch Publication
This edition features articles on the following:From the EditorEgyptian Daily Life, Karmen ThomasBes, a Friendly Demon, C. Brown-ThomasDreams & Nightmares, K SzpakowskaCunning Greeks, Evelien BraqueUp the Greek, Peter ReadMargam Stones, M. HumphriesOlympic Games, Maria StanleyWhite Rock, John AshleyEtceteraBranch Programme and Membership
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'Modernising Calcutta' by Professor Anindita Ghosh: filmed branch lecture
Watch the HA's first live-streamed branch lecture
On 3 December 2018, the Bolton Branch marked a first for the HA by live-streaming a lecture on Twitter. Professor Anindita Ghosh of the University of Manchester spoke to the branch on Calcutta in the 19th century. The event was streamed live on the branch’s Twitter feed, @boltonhistory.
Watch the lecture here (NB external website, opens...
'Modernising Calcutta' by Professor Anindita Ghosh: filmed branch lecture
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 18
Branch publication
3. Editorial 4. The Marriage at Cana – Dr John Law 8. Stinging Nettle Soup – Trevor Fishlock 10. Dining with Dylan – Peter Read 12. Carbs with Everything – Ian Smith 14. Life as I Found it – John Russell & John Ashley 17. Masonic Dining Swansea – Professor...
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