Our 2025/26 Programme

Talks on Saturdays, 2.30pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2XB. Visitors and prospective members warmly welcomed –  £5. Tea etc served afterwards. No Booking Required.

20th Sept 2025AGM
Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
Nathan Amin. Author
(Signed copies available for sale)          
18th Oct 2025The Order of St John’s Knights Hospitallers: From Jerusalem to EssexPaul Gwilliam
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2025
The London Shipwreck: Her Final VoyageJools McCusker-Maxwell, Archaeologist
6th Dec 2025Debate: American Civil War: Missouri decides
(Light seasonal refreshments after the talk)
M. Frampton, J. Edgar & T. Tuckwell
10th Jan 2026Charles II and the RestorationDr David Smith, Cambridge University
7th Feb 2026Please Sir. Can I have some more? Poor Law Essex WorkhousesMichael Holland, Family History Federation
21st Mar 2026Masters of Ancient Astronomy, Calendars, Prophecies and gamesIan Mursell, Miranda NetFellow, Institute of Educ. London Univ.
25th Apr 2026Country walks through Colonial BritainProfessor Corinne Fowler, Professor of Colonialism & Heritage. University of Leicester
16th May 2026The Aftermath of the Roman Departure from BritainProfessor Andrew Breeze. University of Navarre, Spain