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29 Sep
2009

A Great and Glorious Victory: Nelson and Trafalgar

by Peter Warwick

Tuesday 29 September 2009
Peter is chairman of The 1805 Club, a charity whose object is the restoration and maintenance of graves, monuments, memorials of the Georgian sailing navy.
13 Oct
2009

William Beckford and his Tower in Bath

by Amy Frost

Tuesday 13 October 2009
Amy Frost has been Curator of Beckfords Tower and Museum in Bath since 2002.
27 Oct
2009

John Ruskin – a flawed genius

by Julian Halsby

Tuesday 27 October 2009
Julian Halsby studied at Cambridge University and later became Senior Lecturer and Head of Department in a London art college.
10 Nov
2009

The Monmouth Rebellion

by Major General Barry Lane

Tuesday 10 November 2009
Barry Lane was commissioned into the Somerset Light Infantry; his last appointment was GOC of the Army in the South West of England.
24 Nov
2009

Names and the Search for Order in the Natural World

by Anna Pavord

Tuesday 24 November 2009
Anna Pavord, one of the most distinguished writers on gardens today, admired for her meticulous research and knowledge of plants, garden history and design.
8 Dec
2009

Ha Ha Hardy

by Tim Laycock

Tuesday 8 December 2009
Tim Laycock, the son of a Dorset folk musician, is an actor and writer particularly interested in Dorset’s folk culture.
7 Jan
2010

The North West Frontier in History and Today

by Jules Stewart

Thursday 7 January 2010
Jules Stewart began his career as an academic, lecturing in Spanish language and literature at two U.S. universities before.
21 Jan
2010

The Other Lyon: William Hector Lyon, 1868-1907

by Canon Eric Woods

Thursday 21 January 2010
Eric Woods read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later the Theology Tripos at Trinity College Cambridge.
4 Feb
2010

Paddy Ashdown’s Third Law: or why the world will never be the same again and what we should do about it

by Paddy Ashdown

Thursday 4 February 2010
The Rt. Hon. Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG., KBE. (Paddy Ashdown) was a Royal Marine 1959-72, Liberal MP for Yeovil 1975-2001, Leader of the Liberal Democrats 1988-99 and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002-06.
18 Feb
2010

Samuel Palmer

by Professor William Vaughan

Thursday 18 February 2010
William Vaughan is Professor Emeritus in History at Birkbeck College, University of London.
4 Mar
2010

Julius Caesar and the Fall of the Roman Republic

by Adrian Goldsworthy

Thursday 4 March 2010
Acclaimed author of ‘Roman Warfare’. ‘Caesar. The Life of a Colossus’ and ‘The Death of the Roman Superpower’, Dr Goldsworthy appears regularly on TV and Radio.
18 Mar
2010

Frome Arrives in Sherborne – the coming of the railway in 1860

by Alec Oxford OBE

Thursday 18 March 2010
Alec Oxford was born in Sherborne and educated at Foster’s School.