UK branches > Brighton, Hove and District

Activities

• Programmes of regular lectures
• ESU Public Speaking Competition for Schools
• Social and cultural events
• Support for other ESU Programmes

Our Committee Secretary will be pleased to hear from prospective new members. Please see above for contact details. Visitors are welcome at Branch events.

The Branch organises the ESU Public Speaking Competition for Schools throughout eastern Sussex - this mainly falls in February. Any member who would like to help is invited to speak to the Organisers.

Events

2009-2010

Tuesday 22nd September- Lecture meeting, 2.15 at Hove Club
Ian Currie, weatherman and author on Frosts, Freezes and Fairs- 1,000 years on frozen rivers

Tuesday 6th October- Joyce Rolf Memorial Lecture, 6 for 6.30 at Hove Club
Professor Vernon Bogdanor CBE, FBA, Professor of Government at University of Oxford on Churchill and Europe
Admission free by ticket only

Tuesday 20th October- Marking the 250th anniversary of the capture of Quebec Arthur Collins on Louis XV- The Monarch, the Man and the fall of the Bourbons
Followed by Annual General Meeting
2.15pm at the Hove Club with the AGM beginning at 4pm

Tuesday 10th November- Lecture meeting at 2.15
Dr Gerald Adler on The Origins of Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflict

Tuesday 8th December- Lecture meeting at 2.15
James Gardner on the original Brighton mental hospital, opened 1859- "Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune"

Tuesday 12th January- New Year lunch at Royal Albion Hotel

Tuesday 19th January- Lecture meeting at 2.15
John Lockyer on Hubert De Burgh, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports

Tuesday 16th February- Lecture meeting 2.15
Dr Sue Berry, editor, Victoria County History of the City of Brighton and Hove, on The Contribution of Hove to the City's Architectural Heritage

Tuesday 16th March- Lecture meeting at 2.15
Michael Corum on An Army at Bay,  how military morale was rebuilt in World War II

Tuesday 20th April- Spring Early Evening Lecture at 6.30
Geoff Mead on The Twittens and Byways of Brighton

For further information on any event above please call Arthur Collins, Committee Secretary, on 01273 307335.