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
05/12/2024
19:45
Professor Penelope Corfield
'The Aristocracy of Talent': The Coming of the Meritocratic Ideal, 1750 - 1830
The meeting will begin with light Christmas refreshments
16/01/2025
19:00
Fish and Chip Supper
followed by
Jon Fox talks and sings about Gilbert and Sullivan
Pre-booking essential
06/02/2025
19:45
Professor Heather Jones
The First World War in the Mediterranean
13/02/2025
11:30
Visit to the Salters' Company, London
Pre-booking by 24 January essential
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
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