Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme 2024-25
Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £2 for visitors.
Associate membership of the branch is £12 for 2024/25 or £19.50 with our monthly news bulletin, the Beckenham Historian.
All meetings take place at 7.45 pm in Christ Church Hall, Fairfield Road, Beckenham, BR3 3LE unless otherwise stated. Tea and coffee is served from 7.30 p.m.
There is a public car park nearby. For public transport routes and a local map, please see the branch website www.beckenham-historical-association.org/
Programme of events 2024-2025
Wednesday 17 July 2024 at 2pm
Branch Anniversary Tea at the Bromley Court Hotel
Pre-booking essential
Thursday 19 September 2024 starting at 7.30pm
7.30pm Branch Annual General Meeting
followed by
7.45pm Talk
Professor Joanna Story
Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom
Thursday 17 October 2024
Professor Anne Curry
Henry V
Tuesday 29 October 2024 at 1.45pm
Guided Tour of The Old Palace, Croydon
Pre-booking by 4 October essential
Thursday 7 November 2024
Dr. Katja Hoyer
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990
Tuesday 19 November 2024 at 11am
Guided Tour of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
Pre-booking by 25 October essential
Thursday 5 December 2024
Professor Penelope Corfield
‘The Aristocracy of Talent’: The Coming of the Meritocratic Idea, 1750-1830
The evening will begin with light Christmas refreshments
Thursday 16 January 2025
Fish and Chip Supper
followed by
Jon Fox talks and sings about Gilbert & Sullivan
Pre-booking by 13th January for supper essential
Thursday 6 February 2025
Professor Heather Jones
The First World War in the Mediterranean
Thursday 13 February 2025 at 11.30am
Visit to The Salters’ Company, London
Pre-booking by 24 January essential
Saturday 22 March 2025 at 11.30am
Visit to the British Schools Museum, Hitchin
Pre-booking by 28 February essential
Thursday 27 March 2025
Dr. David Smith
James II and the Glorious Revolution
Thursday 10 April 2025
Dr. Vanessa Jenkins
The Grand Tour
Thursday 24 April 2025, 6.30 for 7pm
Annual Dinner at Lugana Restaurant, Beckenham
Pre-booking by 4 April essential
Thursday 15 May 2025
Professor Jonathan Harris
Byzantium, Russia and Ukraine in the Early Middle Ages
Saturday 17 May 2025 at 10.50am
London Spring Walk: Battersea Reinvented
Led by Kate Boyle,pre-booking essential
Saturday 14 June 2025 at 9am
All Day Coach Outing to Grantchester and the Fitzwilliam Museum with leisure time in Cambridge
Pre-booking essential
Thursday 26 June 2025
Chris Bishop
Did Alfred Really Burn the Cakes?
Wednesday 16 July 2025 at 2.30pm
Branch Anniversary Tea at the Bromley Court Hotel
Pre-booking by 2 July essential