PAST TALKS
Please look below to see the talks we have enjoyed recently.
May 2024
March 2024
Professor DAVID ANDRESS
'The Terror in the French Revolution:
What? Why? When?'
Wednesday 17th January 2024
at The Parish Centre
January 2024
July 2022
SILVER JUBILEE - WINCHESTER COLLEGE
Dr THOMAS PENN
'The Brothers York: An English Tragedy'
Wednesday 6th July 2022
September 2024
Dr NICOLA TALLIS
'Young Elizabeth: Princess, Prisoner, Queen'
An informative and engaging account of the life of Queen Elizabeth 1 of England from her birth to the time she came to the throne.
Wednesday 18th September 2024
Starts at 6.30pm
October 2024
Professor ALICE HUNT
'Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649 - 1660'
A dazzling new history of the Interregnum, a turbulent decade of Republican rule.
Wednesday 16th October 2024
November 2024
The Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt FBA
'Thomas Cromwell, post Wolf Hall'
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous, or notorious figures in English Tudor history. A 16th Century fixer to Henry VIII, loathed by the nobility, who was intent on revolutionising the Church.
Wednesday 27th November 2024
at Winchester College
December 2024
Dr SIMON ROFFEY
'Suffering & Sanctity: The Excavations of St Mary Magdalen Leprosy Hospital, Winchester'
The archaeology and history of an English Leprosarium and Almshouse.
Wednesday 11th December 2024
January 2025
CHARLES HARRIS
'Posters of the Belle Epoque, the Great Age of the Poster'
Hear how the poster became the world’s first effective method of mass communication.
From Manet to Cheret to Mucha, Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec. You will see inspirational work
by great artists who made the poster great.
Wednesday 15th January 2025
February 2025
COLIN COOK
'Faith in the City - a Secret History of St Peter Street'
Learn more about how religion has played a large part in the City’s heritage from a Winchester Green Badge Guide.
Tuesday 18th February 2025
March 2024
Professor GERARD KILROY
'Cardinal Pole and the Reformation Narrative for Catholics'
Wednesday 20th March 2024
at Winchester College
April 2024
The Countess of CARNARVON
'Highclere and the Pharoah'
Friday 19th April 2024
at Winchester College
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February 2024
Dr SIMON ROFFEY
'Hermits and Hermitages of Medieval Britain'
Wednesday 21st February 2024
at The Parish Centre
September 2025
Dr JAMES ROSS
University of Winchester
'Henry VII - A Reassessment'
Despite his tenuous claim to the throne Henry was the first king of the Tudor Dynasty. He united the warring factions of the Wars of the Roses.
Wednesday 17th September 2025
October 2025
MGR PHILIP WHITMORE
'I Have Come to Set the World on Fire:
The Founding of the Venerable English College in Rome'
The English College was founded as a Seminary in 1579 to prepare priests to serve on The English Mission after the Reformation. After the Acts of Uniformity in 1549 and 1559 to be a Catholic was to be a traitor. Over the next 100 years 44 priests died a martyr’s death.
Wednesday 15th October 2025
June 2024
Sir CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING
'When will it be done?
Hollywood , Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel'
Wednesday 19th June 2024
at Winchester College
May 2024
CHRISTOPHER DANIELL
'Death & Burial in Medieval England'
Wednesday 15th May 2024
at The Parish Centre
November 2025
LORD PATTEN of Barnes
'What Ever Happened to the Global Order?'
The former Chancellor of the University of Oxford 2003 - 2024
Chair of BBC Trust 2011 - 2014
European Commissioner for External Affairs 1999 - 2014
Chair of The Independent Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland 1998 - 1999
Governor of Hong Kong 1992 - 1997
Member of Parliament for Bath 1979 - 1992
To be held at: Winchester College on Friday November 28th 2025
December 2025
Dr FRANCES SANDS
Curator of Drawings and Books, The Sir John Soane Museum
'Architecture in the Age of Elegance:
An Introduction to Robert Adam'
Robert Adam (1728 - 1792) was one of the most important British Architects working in the Neoclassical style.
A movement in the Decorative and Visual Arts that drew inspiration from the classical arts and cultural of Ancient Greece and Rome
Wednesday 10th December 2025
June 2025
Dr JOANNE PAUL
'Thomas More: Life and Death'
A remarkable book about the life and philosophy of Thomas More. It is a revelatory introduction to this most complex of figures.
Wednesday 18th June 2025
May 2025
Professor
JOHN McALEER
'The East India Company:
The Corporation that Changed the World'
The East India Company is the story of wealth, power and the pursuit of fortune.
Wednesday 21st May 2025
April 2025
The Rt Revd
Dr CHRISTOPHER HERBERT
'Baroque Around the Clock: Understanding Baroque Art'
Christopher Herbert was the Bishop of St Albans from 1996 to 2009. He has had a life long interest in Art History and has lectured at the National Gallery and the Courtauld Institute. He has published extensively on Art History and Spirituality..
Wednesday 23rd April 2025
March 2025
RUFUS BIRD
LVO FSA
'Royal Collection'
Rufus Bird is the former Surveyor of the late Queen's Works of Art.
Friday 7th March 2025 at Winchester College
