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25 Sep

2025

Sir Walter Ralegh at Sherborne by Anna Beer

Thursday 25 September 2025

9 Oct

2025

Lady Anne Clifford: A Medieval Great Lady in the 17th Century

by Dr Adam White

Thursday 9 October 2025

23 Oct

2025

The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation

by Professor Aleks Pluskowski

Thursday 23 October 2025

6 Nov

2025

A Toxic Embrace: Russia’s Church and State through the Centuries

by Lucy Ash

Thursday 6 November 2025

20 Nov

2025

Courts-martial in the British Expeditionary Force: justice and discipline on the Western Front

by Zeb Micic

Thursday 20 November 2025

4 Dec

2025

Sir Edwin Lutyens, Society and Politics: The making of a great British architect.

by Charles Hind FSA

Thursday 4 December 2025

8 Jan

2026

‘Betwixt the Sow’s Ear and the Silken Purse’: John Bankes of Corfe Castle and the Causes of the Civil War

by Dr Jonathan Healey

Thursday 8 January 2026

22 Jan

2026

Sherborne Abbey: Georgian Dilapidation and Victorian ‘Restoration’

by Francis Brown

Thursday 22 January 2026

5 Feb

2026

The King and The Architect: George IV and John Nash

by Dr Geoffrey Tyack

Thursday 5 February 2026

19 Feb

2026

Russia: The Forgotten Holocaust 1924-53

by Andrew J Baker MA

Thursday 19 February 2026

5 Mar

2026

The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House between the Wars

by Professor Adrian Tinniswood

Thursday 5 March 2026

19 Mar

2026

Rudolf Hess – A Most Curious Life and Death

by Maj Gen Peter Williams

Thursday 19 March 2026