Dr James Thomas, recently retired Reader in History at Portsmouth, coordinates lectures for the Portsmouth Branch of the Historical Association. Apart from the event on 11 June (see below for full details), all lectures begin at 7 p.m. and finish by 8.30 p.m. and are held in Park Building, Room 2.07, University of Portsmouth, King Henry 1 Street, Portsmouth PO1 2DZ. Details of parking, etc., can be found on the Portsmouth Branch website or for further information, please contact the Portsmouth Branch Secretary, phil_aspey@hotmail.com (a former History student of the University of Portsmouth!). Local members: £5 (October to May). Visitors: £1 per talk. Students free.
All welcome. Hope to see you there!
2018
9th October
Richard III: Strategy and Foresight
Professor Michael Hicks, University of Winchester
13th November
Sex, Shrubberies and Symphonies: Pleasure Gardens 1660 – 1880.
Dr Jonathan Conlin, University of Southampton
11th December
20,000 Feet above the Western Front: Britain’s Aerial War, 1917 – 18
Professor Adrian Smith, University of Southampton
2019
8th January
Errant Saints: sex, scandal and religion in the mid-seventeenth century
Dr Fiona McCall, University of Portsmouth
19th February
‘Gone with the Wind’ – a great book?
Professor Tony Badger, President of the Historical Association
12th March
Hardly a man’s work at this time: the Portsmouth Military Service Tribunal
James Daly, University of Southampton
14th May: AGM and Lecture:
From Bishop’s Cannings to Portsmouth, via the Pacific: The Career of William Bayly (1738-1810)
Dr James Thomas, University of Portsmouth
11th June
The Hidden History of a Naval Town: Women’s Activism in Portsmouth since 1960*
Dr Sue Bruley, University of Portsmouth
*PLEASE NOTE: This lecture starts at 5pm and will be held in the Menuhin Room, Portsmouth Central Library, PO1 2DX. Admission is free to all.
For further details, search the Historical Association website at:
https://www.history.org.uk/events/categories/508/resource/1775/portsmouth-branch-programme
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