PAST TALKS
Please look below to see the talks we have enjoyed recently.
May 2024
March 2024
January 2024
Professor DAVID ANDRESS
'The Terror in the French Revolution:
What? Why? When?'
Wednesday 17th January 2024
at The Parish Centre
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
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 2023
ADRIAN WADDINGHAM
CBE
'Nicholas Breakspear:
The English Pope'
This new book examines the life of the only English Pope.
Wednesday 8th March 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
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
December 2023
ADRIAN WADDINGHAM
CBE
'Nicholas Breakspear:
The English Pope'
Tuesday 12th December 2023
at The Parish Centre
November 2023
Dr JOANNE PAUL
'The House of Dudley''
Wednesday 15th November 2023
at The Parish Centre
October 2023
Dr GABRIELLE STOREY
Independent Researcher
'Anglo-Papal Relations
& The Pope as a Protector
& Diplomat in Medieval History'
Wednesday 20th September 2023
at Winchester College
September 2023
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Professor MICHAEL WHEELER
'The Year that Shaped the
Victorian Age:
Loves, Lives & Letters of 1845'
Wednesday 20th September 2023
at Winchester College
June 2023
LEANDA DE LISLE
'Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen'
A myth busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles 1, which retells the dramatic story of the Civil War from her perspective.
Wednesday 14th June 2023 at Winchester College
May 2023
LADY APPLEYARD
'An Amateur's View of some of Hampshire's Historic Churches'
Wednesday 10th May 2023
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
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
