Presented by Andrew Choong Han Lin, a Curator of Historic Photographs, Ship Plans & Technical Records at The National Maritime Museum. Andrew's areas of expertise include First World War and Second World War, British, Japanese and US naval history, and the evolution of naval technology and warfare between 1860 and 1945. His other topics of Read more

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Friday 16th October 2026 - World Affairs in the Middle East & Africa: Iran, Saudi Arabia, South Africa & Nigeria Presented by Steve Bird who started as an army officer in NATO’s rapid reaction force. He then embarked on an international career with major companies, travelling and working extensively, especially in Asia, seeing at first Read more

Presented by Bernard Lockett, of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society. Bernard is an author and speaker with many years speaking experience. He is part of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival and his specialist subject is Gilbert and Sullivan! Read more

Presented by Imogen Corrigan, BA, MPhil, FRHistS, FRSA. Imogen spent nearly 20 years in the British Army and retired in the rank of Major before turning to a life-long interest in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval History, which she studied at the University of Kent. A proficient lecturer on medieval history and particularly church art and architecture, Read more

300 Years of English Theatre: From the Rise of the Elizabethan Playhouses to the Fall of Oscar Wilde, presented by Giles Ramsay, a British theatre director, producer and playwright known for working to bring artists from developing countries to international attention. He is Artistic Director of the theatre company Trident Theatre, Director of the charity Developing Read more

Presented by Professor Philip Harris, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Sussex. He spent his career carrying out experiments in atomic and particle physics across Europe and the USA, and is known in particular for his contributions to the measurement of the electric dipole moment of the neutron - one of the most precise measurements Read more

Presented by Andrew Choong, Curator at The National Maritime Museum. This study day examines the development of British battleships over a period of nearly a century,from the appearance of the first ironclads in the 1860s to the last of the great ‘big gun’ capital shipsin the 1940s. Battleships began this era with a central role Read more

Presented by Dr Colin Summerhayes & Prof Jan Zalasiewicz, leading geoscientists who have collaborated on the concept of the Anthropocene, a potential new geological time unit. Summerhayes is a marine geochemist and oceanographer known for his work on climate change and the Anthropocene, and Zalasiewicz is a Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester who Read more

The Story, Development & Operation of the National Garden Scheme, presented by Clare Bevan, Clare Waters, Georgina Waters, Sarah Wilson, Vicky Flynn & Richard Claxton. After a life in medicine, Clare Bevan took early retirement and spent several years at Merrist Wood studying for the RHS qualifications. By August 2015 she had passed both the Read more