Talks on Saturdays, 2.30pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2XB. Visitors and prospective members warmly welcomed – £3. Tea etc served afterwards. The talks will also be available live on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89012164046 Meeting ID: 890 1216 4046.
2022
| 24th September | After a short AGM The Crisis of the Meritocracy: How Popular Demand (not Politicians) Made Britain into a Mass Education Society | Dr Peter Mandler. Professor of Modern Cultural History. Univ.Cambridge | |
| 15th October | Carry on Spying: The British technique, Cold War intelligence and espionage. | Eleanor Brown: Combined Military Services Museum. Maldon, | |
| 3rd December | The Racial Reckoning with Slavery and Racism in the US: 1619-2020 (Light seasonal refreshments after the talk) | Dr Cheryl Hudson. Lecturer in US Political History, Liverpool University |
2023
| 7th January | A LIVE DEBATE TOPIC: The Putney Debates: Nov 2nd – 11th 1647 | The planned meeting on the Crusades has been cancelled due to the speakers ill heaith |
| 4th February | We’ll always have Paris! Stranger than fiction stories behind “A betrayal of heroes” David Ellsworth. Prepare to be amazed! | Dave McCall. Writer |
| 4th March | Warfare in the 10th and 11th centuries – with particular reference to the Battle of Maldon. | John Pullen-Appleby. Writer |
| 22nd April | The Cuban Missile Crisis revisited. | Professor David Stevenson. London School of Economics |
| 13th May | From Soviet to Independent Ukraine (Please note the subject has changed because of the unavailability of the advertised speaker) | Dr Felix Schnell, University of Essex |
The Essex Branch of the Historical Association 