TALKS PROGRAMME 2025/26

(£5 Entry for non-members)

6th May 2025 – ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING & History Quiz

3rd June 2025 — Stephen Nunn: The Battle of Maldon

1st July — Julian Whybra: Kingdom of the East SEaXe

5th August — Tony Tuckwell: The Nuns and their School

2nd September — Richard Bale: Boudica Myth and Legend

7th October — David Worsfold: Fighting for the Empire; a doctors’s tale

4th November –Katie Davis Entertaining the City

3rd December — Stephen Bloomfield The Long Walk to Christmas — followed by Christmas Social

Doors open at 7.30pm as usual followed by talk at 8pm.

8.45 approx Christmas Social — please bring seasonal food to share (and consume!).

Drinks — soft and alcoholic — will be provided iced by the Society.

2026

January — PM meeting 20/01/26. The Epping and Ongar railway

3rd February — Peter Kennison: Zeppelins over Essex

The first Zeppelin raid of the Great War took place on 31st May 1915 with the coastal counties of Essex and Suffolk becoming part of the front line of the war.

Gradually weapons and tactics were used to counter the threat from the 25 rigid airships (each one as long as the Queen Mary ocean liner) which Germany had at the start of the war. The response was to develop a class of airship — the S class — which could reach heights unattainable by the aeroplanes used in defence.

3rd March — Lord Petre – The Post of Lord Lieutenant

Unfortunately Students at the Anglo will not be taking on the challenge of the Essay Competition Prize this year on the 3rd March 2026.

However Lord Petre has stepped in to help and agreed to give his talk ‘The Post of Lord Lieutenant’.’ . As usual the Hall will be open from 7.30pm for tea etc followed at 8.00pm by the talk. After there will be a short time for questions.

7th April — David Williams: Mind the Gap

5th May AGM and Nicky Harper’s Quiz of the Year