{"id":528,"date":"2017-09-15T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=528"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:15:10","slug":"historical-association-portsmouth-branch-lecture-programme-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Historical Association (Portsmouth Branch) lecture programme 2017-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr James Thomas, Reader in History at the University of Portsmouth, coordinates events for the Portsmouth Branch of the Historical Association.\u00a0 Talks meet in the University\u2019s Park Building, room 2.07, at 7.00 pm and finish by 8.30 pm.\u00a0 There are some exciting talks coming up, including, on the 14<sup>th<\/sup> November, one on the Russian Revolution, by our School\u2019s own Dr Paul Flenley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For further details, contact <a href=\"mailto:James.Thomas@port.ac.uk\">James.Thomas@port.ac.uk<\/a> or search the Historical Association website at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.org.uk\/events\/categories\/511\/resource\/4361\/portsmouth-branch-history\">https:\/\/www.history.org.uk\/events\/categories\/511\/resource\/4361\/portsmouth-branch-history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All welcome.\u00a0 Hope to see you there!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10th October Operation Tadpole, <\/strong>Dr John Bevan, the Diving Museum, diver and author<\/p>\n<p>The British anti-sabotage operations against the Italin frogmen attacks in Gibraltar during WWII.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>14th November, The 1917 Russian Revolution; How Lenin took power, <\/strong>Dr Paul Flenley, University of Portsmouth<\/p>\n<p>Was October 1917 a revolution nor coup? Changing views on how Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>12<sup>th<\/sup> December Shipwrecks around the British Isles, <\/strong>Alexandra Hildred, Head of Research, Mary Rose Trust<\/p>\n<p>A member of the archaeology team who dived on the Mary Rose and many other wrecks has tales of diving and the artefacts discovered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>9<sup>th<\/sup> January Are English liberties a Danish gift? <\/strong>The constitutional significance of Cnut\u2019s 101 Oxford peace accord, Neil McGougall, local historian and researcher.<\/p>\n<p>The significance of the late-Saxon period is examined using available records<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>13<sup>th<\/sup> February, The Strange Afterlives of Captain Cook,<\/strong> Dr John McAleer, University of Southamton<\/p>\n<p>The 250<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Cook\u2019s first voyage to the Pacific prompts this examination of this naval man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>13<sup>th<\/sup> March\u00a0 Southampton\u2019s people and their possessions 1250-1500<\/strong>, Prof. Chris Woolgar, University of Southampton<\/p>\n<p>Professor Woolgar\u2019s current research centres on the objects of daily life, their significance and the meaning of material culture in later Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>8<sup>th<\/sup> May AGM + Representation of the People Act 1918<\/strong>, Prof. Pat Thane, Research Professor in Contemporary British History, King\u2019s College, London, TBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr James Thomas, Reader in History at the University of Portsmouth, coordinates events for the Portsmouth Branch of the Historical Association.\u00a0 Talks meet in the University\u2019s Park Building, room 2.07, at 7.00 pm and finish by 8.30 pm.\u00a0 There are some exciting talks coming up, including, on the 14th November, one on the Russian Revolution, by our School\u2019s own Dr Paul Flenley For further details, contact James.Thomas@port.ac.uk or search the Historical Association website at: https:\/\/www.history.org.uk\/events\/categories\/511\/resource\/4361\/portsmouth-branch-history All welcome.\u00a0 Hope to see you there! &nbsp; 2017 10th October Operation Tadpole, Dr John Bevan, the Diving Museum, diver and author The British anti-sabotage operations against the Italin frogmen attacks in Gibraltar during WWII. 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