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MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two’
Sunday 27 April, 2025, 7pm (London)
Speaker: Dr Helen Fry
Life in a Medieval Gentry Household: Alice de Bryene of Action Hall, Suffolk
Sunday 13 April, 2025, 7pm (London)
GUEST SPEAKER: Ffiona von Westhoven Perigrinor
Aphra Behn: 17th Century Female Spy, Poet and Playwright
Sunday 6 April, 2025, 7pm (London)
Speaker: Melanie King
The Once and Future(less) King: The Rise and Fall of Juan Carlos I
Sunday 23 March, 2025, 7pm (London)
GUEST SPEAKER: Emeritus Professor David T. Gies
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power an glamour in the Struggle for Europe
Sunday 16 March, 2025, 7pm (London)
GUEST SPEAKER: Nancy Goldstone
Can Onions Cure Earache?: Medical Advice From the Eighteenth Century
Sunday 2 March, 2025, 7pm (London)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
Virtual Tour of the Houses of Parliament
Sunday 16 February, 2025, 7pm (London)
GUEST SPEAKER: Loona Hazarika
(NB: There is no recording of this event)
Coffee and Coffee Houses: How the English Fell in Love with Caffeine
Sunday 2 February, 2025, 7pm (London)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
Beer, Sausages and Marmalade: Oxford Food and Drink in the Nineteenth Century
Sunday 19 January, 2025, 7pm (London)
GUEST SPEAKER: Liz Woolley
Claude Monet and the First World War
Sunday 12 January, 2025, 7pm (London)
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr Ross King
‘Here We Make Italy’: The Risorgimento
Sunday 8 December, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr Ross King
The History of the Bubonic Plague
Sunday 1 December, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Paul Chrystal
Not Just Napoleon and Jane Austen: Lesser Known Episodes From the Year 1815
Sunday 24 November, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
Historical Inaccuracies of Napoleon (the movie)
Sunday 3 November, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Jem Duducu
A Crystal Vision of Victorian Britain: The Great Exhibition of 1851
Sunday 20 October, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr Simon Wenham
The Duchess of Well-Being: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough’s Pursuit of Health and Happiness
Sunday 6 October, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
Odd Men and Necessary Women – Servants of a Great Palace
Sunday 22 September, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Antonia Keaney
Blenheim Palace: A Duke, a Battle and a Palace
Sunday 8 September, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
‘The Drink that Cheers but Doesn’t Intoxicate’: How the English Fell in Love with Tea
Sunday 28 April, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
After the Gold Rush: My Californian Mining Adventure (140 years too late)
Sunday 14 April, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Jeremy Burton
There is no recording of this talk.
English Prophets Without Honour: Mother Shipton, Joanna Southcott and John Wroe
Sunday 24 March, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
Frenemies in Iberia: The Story of Spain v. Portugal
Sunday 10 March, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Professor David T. Gies
Rude, Lewd and Crude: Literature of the English Spa
Sunday 25 February, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
Female Gladiators in Ancient Rome
Sunday 18 February, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr Ross King
Buxton’s ‘Bluebirds’: The Great War, Shell Shock and Canadian Nurses
Sunday 4 February, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
Bonfire Of History: The Lost Treasures, Trophies and Trivia of Madame Tussaud’s Exhibition
Sunday 14 January, 2024, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Christopher Joll
Highlights of the British Museum
Sunday 10 December, 2023, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Loona Hazarika
Agent Sonya: Stalin’s Spy in Oxford
Sunday 26 November, 2023, 7pm (GMT)
GUEST SPEAKER: Emeritus Professor Anthony Glees
Spy Hard with a Vengeance: The Curious Case of Mrs Stan Harding
Sunday 19 November, 2023, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
Hydrotherapy: Three Weeks in Wet Sheets
Sunday 8 October, 2023, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
A Lot of Hot Air: How the English Fell in Love with Sweating
Sunday 1 October, 2023, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
From Spaw to Spa: The Making of Bath
Monday 25 September, 2023, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King
‘What Ever Did the Romans Do For Us?’: Bathing for Health and Pleasure
Sunday 17 September, 2023, 7pm (GMT)
SPEAKER: Melanie King