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24 Sep
2013

Castles as they were meant to be seen

by Christopher Moule

Tuesday 24 September 2013
Castles as they were meant to be seen.
15 Oct
2013

Garden History

by Christine Stones

Tuesday 15 October 2013
A talk on the history of gardens.
29 Oct
2013

American Involvement in the English Civil War

by Adrian Tinniswood

Tuesday 29 October 2013
The contribution of American colonists to the English Civil War.
12 Nov
2013

Spain: the birth of a Modern Nation

by Chris Pollard

Tuesday 12 November 2013
The lecture concentrates on 20th century Spanish history, including the Civil War, Franco and then the remarkable transition to a modern democratic nation.
26 Nov
2013

Behind The Wall – Living with Communism in East Germany

by Major General Sir Robert Corbett

Tuesday 26 November 2013
What was life really like in the country ruled by a dictator – Erich Honecker – separated from us by the Iron Curtain and, in its capital, Berlin, by the Wall?
10 Dec
2013

Victorian church restoration and its problems

by Dr Mark Smith

Tuesday 10 December 2013
The Victorian period saw a revolution in the world of Anglican worship transforming completely the way it looked, sounded and even smelt.
9 Jan
2014

Children of the Holocaust

by Susan Francis

Thursday 9 January 2014
The talk will give a brief survey of the ways in which childrens’ lives were affected – drawing on some individual stories to illustrate this.
23 Jan
2014

Godfrey Place VC – An Exceptional Naval Officer

by Paul Watkins

Thursday 23 January 2014
Lieutenant Godfrey Place was in command of the Midget Submarine X7 when it attacked the German Battleship Tirpitz in September 1943 – ‘one of the most audacious and gallant acts in the annals of the Royal Navy’.
6 Feb
2014

Let no one forget. Let nothing be forgotten

by Peter Warwick

Thursday 6 February 2014
Over 1.3 million civilians starved to death in Leningrad between 1941 and 1943. The lecture uncovers the facts of this little-known tragedy and proposes that the people prevailed because of the strength of Russian Orthodoxy.
20 Feb
2014

Skirt dancing, Can-.Can and the invention of “Gay Paree” – 1840-1914

by Jonathan Conlin

Thursday 20 February 2014
A closer look at the history of the “French national dance” reveals a story of cross-Channel exchange and London’s forgotten contribution to the invention of “Gay Paree”.
6 Mar
2014

The Battle of Lewes (1264)

by David Carpenter

Thursday 6 March 2014
What does Lewes, which saw the defeat of Henry III, tell us about aristocratic behaviour and political ideas in England in the High Middle Ages?
20 Mar
2014

‘Murder in the Balkans’ – marking the hundredth anniversary of the start of the First World War.

by Tim Butcher

Thursday 20 March 2014
The talk will focus on the assassination of the Hapsburg Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and the person who committed it. It will also look at the Balkan background.