ODHS PROGRAMME 2025-26
2025
7 Oct Dr David Rudling: Pompeii & Herculaneum
21 Oct Julian Pooley: Netherne – a Surrey Mental Hospital in focus
4 Nov. Alan Rooney: Napoleon & the destruction of the old European order
18 Nov Professor Tom Buchanan: The Spanish Civil War
2 Dec Dr Ellena Matthews: Home Front Heroism: Civilians & Conflict in Second World War London
16 Dec Barry Glancy: Tales of an ITN newsman
Followed by the Christmas Party
2026
6 Jan Dr Anne Sassin-Allen: Lullingstone Castle
20 Jan Dr Martin Spychal: The Great Reform Act? Science, boundaries and redrawing England’s electoral map
3 Feb Dr Richard Blakemore: The Rise & Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy
17 Feb Roger Cornish: The Duke of Marlborough
3 Mar Dr Duncan Pring: Maya Kings & Queens
17 Mar Annual General Meeting
Speaker to be announced