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Programme of the Beckenham and Bromley branch of the Historical Association

 

 

  

 

2008

 

 

 

18 September

7.30 p.m.

8.00 p.m.

Annual General Meeting

followed by

Dr Lucy Worsley

Horses, Women and Great Houses:
William Cavendish,

first Duke of
Newcastle, 1593 – 1676 (illustrated)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 October

10.00 a.m.

Saturday
GUIDED WALK AROUND BLACKHEATH
and
VISIT TO MORDEN COLLEGE


Bookings to aj60@dial.pipex.com by 3 October
     

16  October

 

Mr. Kevin Shaw

Samuel Pepys: upstairs, downstairs IN THE AGE OF CHARLES II (illustrated)

 

 

 

 

 

13 November

7.15 p.m.

 

8.15 p.m.

 

 

 

Fish and Chip Supper

followed by

The ELM Singers

TUDOR AND VICTORIAN MUSIC

Conductor John Webber

Supper bookings to aj60@dial.pipex.com by 6 November

 

     

15 November

Time to be confirmed

Saturday

VISIT TO WESLEY'S CHAPEL

AND

BUNHILL FIELDS

Pre-booking (£3) essential

Bookings to drbledu@btinternet.com

At the invitation of the Central London Branch

 

     

6 December

2.00 p.m.

Saturday

 

At the Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, London, WC1

Dr. Frances Wood

MYTHS AND MISTAKES ABOUT MEDIEVAL CHINA

followed by

Christmas Social

Pre-booking (£5) for the social essential

Bookings to drbledu@btinternet.com

At the invitation of the Central London Branch

 

 

 

 

11 December

 

Professor Patricia thane

The History of the British Welfare State

followed by Christmas refreshments

 

 

 

 

2009

 

 

 

17 January

Saturday

10.15 a.m.

 

1.30 p.m.

GUIDED TOUR OF THE FREEMASONS’ HALL

Numbers limited

followed by

GUIDED TOUR OF THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM,
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Pre-booking by 12 December 2008

Bookings to aj60@dial.pipex.com

 

 

 

 

22 January

 

 

AT A CINEMA NEAR YOU”

Local pre-war documentary footage,

including material by the late John Mantle

Presented by Mike Shaw

and Footprint Productions

 

 

 

 

26 February

7.30 p.m.

 

 

ANNUAL DINNER

at Zi Teresa Restaurant, Beckenham

Bookings to aj60@dial.pipex.com by 9 January

 
     

12 March

Mr. Colin Gale and Ms. Caroline Smith

 

Before the Mugshot:

Mid-Victorian Asylum Photography (illustrated)

 

British Association logo

(This meeting is one of the events in the British Association for the Advancement of Science National Science and Engineering Week 2009)

 

 

 

 

21 March

11.00 a.m.

Saturday
GUIDED VISIT TO THE PETRIE MUSEUM, WC1

Bookings to aj60@dial.pipex.com by 14 March

At the invitation of the Central London Branch

Pre-booking (£3) essential

Bookings to drbledu@btinternet.com

 
     
28 March

11.00 a.m.

Saturday
VISIT TO HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB

Bookings to aj60@dial.pipex.com by 13 March

 
     

18 April

2.00 p.m.

Saturday

 

At the Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, London, WC1

Dr. Richard Williams

HOLBEIN AT THE COURT OF HENRY VIII

At the invitation of the Central London Branch

 
     

23 April

Mr. Robert Vidler

The great war 1914-1918:

myths and truth

 

 

 

 

 

9 May

Time to be confirmed

Saturday
VISIT TO REIGATE PRIORY

Bookings to aj60@dial.pipex.com by 24 April
 

 

 

 

16 May

Saturday

8.15 a.m.

ALL DAY COACH OUTING

TO WINCHESTER

Bookings to annclavering@ntlworld.com  by 2 May

 

 




 
21 May Professor David Carpenter

Magna Carta and Medieval Monarchy

 

     

6 June

Saturday

10.45 a.m.

Midsummer London Walk

EATON SQUARE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS

Led by Mr. Neil Lloyd 

Bookings to john.wagstaff@orange.net

 

 

 

 

18 June

 

 

Professor Anthony Stockwell

Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess

in Colonial Malaya

 




   
July

Date and time to be confirmed

Saturday
SILCHESTER ROMAN TOWN OPEN DAY

At the invitation                     

of the University of Reading 


Further details from aj60@dial.pipex.com