Programme

Meetings are normally held at the Battle Memorial Hall, generally on the third Thursday of each month at 7.30 pm, but please check the programme as occasionally the venue and day may change.

Painting of a BDHS lecture in progress in the Wynne Room by Chris O’Brian © BDHS

                                                  2022-23 Lecturers

Oliver Everett :
Oliver previously visited the Society about 8 years ago, when he spoke about Windsor Castle. He lectures widely in Britain and abroad including at the V&A, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, as well as to Arts Societies in France, Germany, Spain and New Zealand. He is a Librarian Emeritus of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle and wrote the official guidebook to Windsor Castle.
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Professor Sir Richard Evans :
Professor Evans is a British historian of 19th and 20th century Europe with a focus on Germany. He is author of eighteen books, including his three-volume ‘The Third Reich Trilogy’. He has been Provost of Gresham College in London since 2014; was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge until his retirement in 2014; and President of Cambridge’s Wolfson College from 2010 to 2017. He was appointed Knight Bachelor for services to scholarship in the 2012 Birthday honours.
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Brigadier Hugh Willing :
Hugh lectures on British Military and Colonial History. He has travelled widely Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, Arabia and the Far East both in a military and private capacity. He was a professional soldier for 36 years before retiring in 2007 and served in the Royal Green Jackets and the 2nd KEO Gurkha Rifles in many parts of the world. His final posting was in Oman as the Defence Attache at the British Embassy for 4 years.
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Kevin Newman :
Kevin is an author, tour guide and history events co-ordinator, who is owner of the History Consultancy, All-Inclusive History. The consultancy produces a range of written and online resources for education and history publishers, history-focussed novels for children and adults and presents a wide range of talks, tours and events. He is currently historian-in-residence for the Metropole Hotel in Brighton.
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Imogen Corrigan :
Imogen is an expert in medieval history. Following an army career of nearly twenty years, she graduated from Kent University in 2004 and since then has run a number of lecture/study tours in the UK and Europe, covering 1000 years of history and a geographical area from North Cape to Marrakesh and from Ireland across to Constantinople
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David Nibloe :
David is a Director of The Kent and East Sussex Railway Company Ltd which aims to preserve, restore and operate the whole or parts of the railway from Tenterden in Kent to Robertsbridge in Sussex as a permanent public exhibition and museum, which includes the preservation, display and operation of steam and other locomotives. He spent most of his career at HSBC, his last appointment being as Group Head of Transformation, leading teams across the world delivering HSBC’s highest priority programmes.
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Dr Miles Russell :
Dr Russell is a senior lecturer in pre-historic and Roman Archaeology at Bournemouth University. He has conducted fieldwork across the UK, as well as in Germany, Sicily and Russia. He is currently Director of Fieldwork in the Department, director of Regnum and co-director of the Durotriges Project (both investigating the transition from the Iron Age to Roman period across SE and SW Britain), co-director of Bournemouth University’s archaeological field school, Council for British Archaeology Representative for Dorset and President of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006. His many publications include a book on the Piltdown Man Hoax.
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Dr Eleanor Parker :
Dr Parker is a Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, Oxford. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2013 and then held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, researching interpretations of the Danish Conquest in medieval historical writing and teaching at Worcester College. She is especially interested in narratives about the Danes in England, representations of the pre-Conquest past and the intersections between historical writing, fiction and romance. Her recent book ‘The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England’ as selected by The Times as one of the best books of 2022.
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Professor Aidan Dodson :
Professor Dodson is an English Egyptologist and historian who has been Honorary Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol since 2018. He began teaching at the University of Bristol in 1996, also holding the post of Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo in 2013. His primary research interests concern Ancient Egypt, with a particular focus on dynastic history and chronology, tomb architecture, sarcophagus and coffin design, canopic equipment, and the history of Egyptology; he is also an historian of late 19th and early 20th centure navies and has written on the royal tombs of Great Britain. He is author of over 20 books and 300 articles and reviews. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003.
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Dr Joanne Paul :
Dr Paul is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Sussex, which she joined in 2016; a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was also a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker for 2017 and in 2013 she was awarded the Sir John Neale Prize in Tudor History. Her research treats Early Modern cultural and intellectual history especially themes of rhetoric, counsel and temporality. She has worked on figures including Thomas More, Machiavelli, Shakespeare and Hobbes. She has shared her work widely, including with academic and trade presses, popular magazines, blogs and on TV and radio.
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Professor David Bates :
David Bates, President of the Society, is a renowned historian of Britain and France from the 10th to the 13th century. He has written many books, the most recent being a radical revision of William the Conqueror and is currently working on further innovative approaches to the history of northern Europe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research.
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