2024-25

 ODHS Programme 2024-25

2024

1 October Lucinda Gosling: Holidays & High Society    

15 October      Viv Lawes: The Huguenots                     

29 October              Roger Packham: Sport & Scandal at Sheffield Park: The Extraordinary Story of Lord Sheffield 1832-1909

12 November     Dr. Duncan Pring: The Mayan Civilisation of Central America

26 November        Dr. Rosie Llewelyn-Jones:  The East India Company & the Construction of British India

10 December        Melinda Stone: The History of Herstmonceux Castle, followed by the Christmas Party

2025

7 January           Dr. Gerard Lyons: The Victorian Economy

21 January         Peter Jarvis: A History of Spa Towns

4 February             Prof. Andrew Hopper: The Human Costs of the British Civil Wars (Zoom only)

18 February           Dr. Peter Shipley:  Barons, Knights & Burgesses: How Parliament Began

4 March     Dr. Catherine Ferguson: A post-Restoration Census? The Hearth Tax 1662-1689

18 March            Dr. Maria Grasso: Hidden in Plain Sight:  Some Overlooked Tombs in Westminster Abbey 

  Followed by the Annual General Meeting