All lectures take place on Thursdays and begin at 7.30pm
at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
For mote details contact Dr Boyd Schlenther, FRhistS at bss.bss.23@gmail.com or visit: http://www.historybath.org
Lecture Programme 2019-20
26 September 2019
‘Researching William Beckford’s Fonthill’ Dr Amy Frost (Bath Preservation Trust)
24 October 2019
‘Recreating Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres: Shakespeare’s Globe and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse‘ Paul Simons (Restoration architect)
21 November 2019
‘Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him’ Dr Tracy Borman (Heritage Education Trust, Historical Royal Palaces)
23 January 2020
‘International diplomacy between the wars: dead ends or new beginnings?’ Dr Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck, University of London)
27 February 2020
‘Who is the tramp? Vagrancy in Victorian and Edwardian Britain’ Professor Nicholas Crowson (University of Birmingham)
26 March 2020
‘The search for women in the Viking Age’ Dr Chris Callow (University of Birmingham)
23 April 2020
‘Royal Attitudes to the Atlantic slave trade, 1785-1808’ Professor Suzanne Schwarz (University of Worcester)