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
25/04/2024
19:45
Professor Jim Endersby
Darwin's Troubled Legacy
18/05/2024
10:50
Midsummer London Walk
Guided walk round Kings Cross
Led by Katie Boyle
HA members free, non-members £5
Pre-booking essential
23/05/2024
19:45
Professor Michael Broers
Napoleon: The Famous Delinquent
02/06/2024
08:45
All Day Coach Outing
to
Layer Marney Tower and Colchester
Pre-booking essential
27/06/2024
19:45
Professor Matthew Seligmann
Rum, Sodomy, Prayers and the Lash Revisited: Winston Churchill and Social Reform in the Royal Navy, 1900-1915
17/07/2024
14:30
HA Branch Anniversary Afternoon Tea
At the Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley
Pre-booking essential
19/09/2024
19:45
Professor Joanna Story
Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom
Date to be confirmed
17/10/2024
19:45
Professor Anne Curry
Henry V
07/11/2024
19:45
Dr. Katja Hoyer
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949 - 1990
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
7 p.m.
Fish and Chip Supper
followed by Mr. Jon Fox
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
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
15/05/2025
19:45
Professor Jonathan Harris
Byzantium, Russia and Ukraine in the Early Middle Ages