Events

When: Meetings, as scheduled in the programme, take place on Thursdays at 7.45 p.m. in Beckenham unless otherwise stated. We serve tea and coffee before the meeting.

Where: All Beckenham lectures take place in Christ Church Hall, Fairfield Road, just off Beckenham High Street, Beckenham BR3 3LE. The nearest railway stations are Clock House (on the line from Charing Cross) and Beckenham Junction (on the line from Victoria). Buses 54, 194, 227 and 358 stop nearby. Trams from Wimbledon and Croydon stop at Beckenham Junction.

We follow all Government public health guidelines.

Click here to email Mrs. Ann Wagstaff, Programme Secretary of the Beckenham & Bromley branch of the Historical Association to request booking forms.

Date
Time
Event Details
22/03/2025
11:30
Visit to the British Schools Museum, Hitchin
Pre-booking by 28 February essential
27/03/2025
19:45
Dr. David Smith
James II and the Glorious Revolution
10/04/2025
19:45
Dr. Vanessa Jenkins
The Grand Tour
24/04/2025
18:30 for 19:00
Annual Dinner
at
Lugana Restaurant, Beckenham
Pre-booking essential by 4 April essential
15/05/2025
19:45
Professor Jonathan Harris
Byzantium, Russia and Ukraine in the Early Middle Ages
17/05/2025
10:50
Spring London Walk:
Battersea Reinvented

Led by Kate Boyle
Pre-booking essential
14/06/2025
09:00
All Day Coach Outing
to
Grantchester and the Fitzwilliam Museum, with leisure time in Cambridge
Pre-booking essential
26/06/2025
19:45
Chris Bishop
Did Alfred Really Burn the Cakes?
16/07/2025
14:30
HA Branch Anniversary Afternoon Tea
at
the Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley
Pre-booking essential
18/09/2025
19:30
AGM
followed by
Mr. Peter Longley
Hitler's Mountain
23/10/2025
19:45
Dr. Andrew Smith
Routes of Resistance - France, Britain and Legacies of the Second World War
13/11/2025
19.00
Fish and Chip Supper
followed by Dr. Brigid Allen
George and Emily Eden:
Pride, Privilege, Empire and the Whigs

Pre-booking essential
04/12/2025
19:45
Mr. Adrian Phillips
The Abdication of Edward VIII: Myths, Spies, Lawyers, Editors and an Archbishop
The meeting will begin with light Christmas refreshments
22/01/2026
19:45
Mr. Taylor Downing
The Army that Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception
23/04/2026
19:45
Professor Nicholas Morton
How did the Mongols reshape the 13th century Middle East?
This a Zoom lecture in the Church hall. Pre-booking is essential for watching remotely on Zoom.
21/05/2026
19:45
Reverend Dr. Jonathan Dean
John and Charles Wesley - their life and times
18/06/2026
19:45
Professor Robert Gildea
Mining Communities and The Miners' Strike, 1984-85
15/07/2026
14:30
HA Branch Anniversary Afternoon Tea
at
the Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley
Pre-booking essential