All talks are held in the Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, and start at 7.00pm.
For further information/updates see the Historical Association Plymouth Branch website (www.ha-plymouth.org.uk) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/groups/PlyHA/).
Programme
Tuesday 15th October
Mortality and Burial in Victorian Plymouth
Dr Ian Hodgins GP, Ford Park Cemetery Trustee, and Researcher
Tuesday 12th November
The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson
Dr Sam Willis, TV Presenter and Writer
Tuesday 19th November
The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture
Prof. Daniel Maudlin, University of Plymouth
Tuesday 10th December
Bah Humbug! Dickens, Charity and the Victorian Christmas Spirit
Dr Julie-Marie Strange, University of Manchester
Tuesday 14th January 2014
Plymouth & Devonport’s Anti-Slavery Campaigns 1787-1833
Dr Richard Huzzey, University of Liverpool
Tuesday 28th January
Bruce Lee - A Poetics of Manliness in Post-war Japan
Dr Jonathan Mackintosh, Plymouth University
Tuesday 11th February
"Stipendiaries against pagans": the incentive of pay during the Crusades
Dr Christopher Tyerman, University of Oxford
Tuesday 4th March
After Bletchley Park: The History of GCHQ
Prof. Richard Aldrich, University of Warwick
Tuesday 18th March
(Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture)
Thinking with Rome: Space, Place and Emotion in the making of the first world religion, 1500-1700
Dr Simon Ditchfield, University of York
Tuesday 29th April
Gabriele D’Annunzio: poet, seducer and preacher of war in Italy
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author The Pike, a biography of Gabriele D’Annunzio
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