Our 2024/25 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.

2024

21 SeptemberAfter a short AGM
The Witch Trials of Chelmsford
Mike Dodsworth. Stoyteller
12 OctoberAttacks on farms & rural distress in 19th Century Essex.Jef Page Lecturer and tour guide.
7 DecemberDEBATE: Causes of the American Civil War (1) Bleeding Kansas Whose side are you on, Butternuts?
(Light seasonal refreshments after the talk)
M. Frampton & J. Edgar

2025

11 JanuaryThe HuguenotsROSEMARY HAYES. (Writer: ‘The King’s Command’)
8 February
The Zulu War – Ten Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know: 

Dave McCall (Author )
22 MarchWhat have the Normans ever done for us?Professor David Bates. University of East Anglia
26 AprilAlfred the Great and Late Anglo-Saxon EnglandDr Eric Boston. C.A.T.S. College, Cambridge
17 MayThe North Sea Floods of 1953Cherry Boroughs. (Author: The Farmer & the Fury)