
PAST TALKS
Please look below to see the talks we have enjoyed recently.
February 2023

Dr NICOLA TALLIS
'All the Queen's Jewels 1445 -1548'
The jewellery collections of the Yorkshire and Tudor Queens.
Wednesday 8th February 2023

March 20233

ADRIAN WADDINGHAM
CBE
'Nicholas Breakspear:
The English Pope'
This new book examines the life of the only English Pope.
Wednesday 8th March 2023


April 2023

Dr ANTONIA WHITLEY
Independent Art Historian
'Renaissance Masters & The Tradition of Art Forgery in Siena'
Siena was the major Italian city for the production of 'antique paintings and objects d'art'.
Wednesday 12th April 2023

December 2022


The Rev'd Canon
Dr JUDITH MALTBY
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
'Hearing the Word, The Bible, The Prayer Book & Public Worship from Cranmer to 1660.
Wednesday 7th December 2022
November 2022

Dr GILES MERCER
'Why was St Thomas More Executed?'
Wednesday 9th November 2022

October 2022

The Rev'd TERRY HEMMING
Master of St Cross
A Hospital without Doctors and Brothers who are not Religious:
What is beyond the walls of St Cross?
Wednesday 12th October 2022

September 2022


"A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history"
Tracy Borman
Dr ESTELLE PARANQUE
'Blood, Fire & Gold'
Elizabeth I of England & Catherine de Medici
Wednesday 14th September 2022

July 2022
SILVER JUBILEE - WINCHESTER COLLEGE
Dr THOMAS PENN
'The Brothers York: An English Tragedy'
Wednesday 6th July 2022

June 2022

PROFESSOR
DAVID ANDRESS
University of Portsmouth
'Church and Society in the French Revolution'
Wednesday 1st June 2022

May 2022

JAMES McKINNEL
Chaplain Winchester College
'Wykeham’s Winchester'

Wednesday 11th May 2022
April 2022

EMERITUS PROFESSOR
ANDREW BRADSTOCK
University of Winchester
'Better Together:
The Sheppard-Worlock Partnership
& Its Impact'
Wednesday 13th April 2022

March 2022

TONY TUCKER
'The City of London Churches'
Wednesday 9th March 2022

February 2022
Fr NICHOLAS SCHOFIELD
Archivist to Westminster Cathedral
'The Victorians who fought for the Pope:
England & the Pontifical Zouaves'
Wednesday 9th February 2022


January 2022
Dr ALICE HUNT
University of Southampton
'England in the 1650s:
From Republic to Restoration'
Wednesday 12th January 2022


December 2021
THE RT REV'D Dr CHRISTOPHER HERBERT
'Hans Holbein & the Reformation
Wednesday 8th December 2021


November 2021

Dr NICOLA TALLIS
'Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch'
Wednesday 10th November 2021

October 2021



PROFESSOR JONATHAN PHILLIPS
Royal Holloway, University of London
'The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin'
Thursday 14th October 2021
