Guided visit to Camden Place
Numbers limited. Pre-booking by 14 October essential.
Programme
Events
Thursday evening lectures, guided visits, outings and the occasional fish supper.
When
Meetings, as scheduled in the programme, take place on Thursdays at 7.30 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.
Booking
Email Mrs. Ann Wagstaff, Programme Secretary, to request booking forms.
We follow all Government public health guidelines.
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Upcoming
Beckenham and Penge in the General Strike
Mr. Martin Spence
Guided visit to the Mansion House
Numbers limited. Pre-booking by 13 November essential.
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Norwood Years
Mr. Bernard Winchester
The meeting will begin with light Christmas refreshments.
Living on borrowed time: the Raj in India
Dr. Sean Lang
Guided visit to the Foundling Museum
Numbers limited. Pre-booking by 15 January essential.
Fish and Chip Supper, followed by
An Audience with Florence Nightingale
The Nursing Memorial Appeal
Pre-booking essential.
The British Slave Trade in Eight Documents
Dr. Philippa Hellawell
Guided visit to Carpenters' Hall
Numbers limited. Pre-booking by 5 March essential.
Jimmy Carter: the quintessential post-New Deal Democrat
Professor Gareth Davies
Annual Dinner
at Lugana Restaurant, Beckenham
Numbers limited. Pre-booking by 16 April essential.
Spring Walk
A stroll round the delightful village of Dulwich taking in the College, the Alms houses and the Park. We will hear how this hamlet first grew under the Shakespearean actor Edward Alleyn, the arrival of the railways and a certain Mr. Dickens!
Pre-booking essential.
Elizabeth Barton: The Nun, The Virgin Mary, and opposition to Henry VIII's Reformation in Kent
Professor Jackie Eales
All Day Coach Outing
at Firle Place and Glynde Place
Pre-booking essential.
The People of 1381
Dr. Helen Lacey
HA Branch 80th Anniversary Afternoon Tea
at The Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley
Pre-booking by 7 July essential.
AGM, followed by
Hayes and its part in the American Revolution
Nick Goddard
Presidential Lecture
Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England
Professor James Daybell
Sir Thomas More
Reverend Dr. Jonathan Dean
The Social History of Psychiatric Patients at the beginning of the Twentieth Century
Ms Sarah Jayne
The meeting will begin with light Christmas refreshments.
Past events this season (2)
AGM, followed by
The Life of the last Empress of the French — Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920)
Angela Hatton
Bedding the Monarch: Sexuality, Scandal, and Secrets in Medieval Britain
Dr. Gabrielle Storey