Date	Presenter	Topic
2019
10 Dec	Peter Atkinson	History of Spain Series Part III: The 16th to the 18th Centuries
12 Nov	Angela Chantry	History of Spain Series Part II: The Moors in Spain
8 Oct	Cheda Panajotovik	History of Spain Series Part I: Ice Age to the Romans
11 June	Alan Hunton	The History of Crude Oil from Mesopotamian Origins
14 May	Peter Atkinson	Intersecting Lives: John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
9 April	Barbara Craven	Food in Art
12 March	David Thoms	Robin Hood
12 Feb	John Hopwood	The history of glass
8 January	Mike Granville	A light hearted look at the history of computing
2018
11th December	Tom Stevenson	“Ten notable Scottish personalities, from the years 1000-2018”.
13th November	Alan Oliver	“Simón Bolívar”.
2nd October	Angela Chantry	“Carmen Amaya, the legendary Spanish flamenco dancer”.
12th June	Peter Atkinson	Prohibition, 1920-1933: the Law of Unintended Consequences in Action. Peter’s last talk as Group Leader.
8th May	Mike Rendell	Pride and Prejudice: from Printed Word to the Silver Screen.
10th April	John Hopwood	The History of Woolworths and the Extraordinary Exploits of the Woolworth Family.
13th March	Alan Hunton	John Flamsteed; the First Astronomer Royal.
13th February	Christine Betterton-Jones	A Brief History of Xàbia (Jávea) as Reflected in its Archaeology.
9th January	Mike Granville	The World in 1946.
2017
12th December	Angela Chantry	Domenico Chiocchetti and Orkney’s Italian Chapel.
14th November	Alan Oliver	The Vikings.
10th October	Cheda Panajotovic	Old King Coal.
6th June	Mike Rendell	Castaway: the Real Stories behind Robinson Crusoe and the Mutiny on the Bounty.
9th May	Mike Frost	Lord Nelson, Lady Hamilton and HMS Victory.
11th April	Peter Atkinson	Moors and Christians: Conquest, Reconquest and Architectural Legacy. 100th History Presentation.
14th March	Mike Granville	Duende: the History of Flamenco.
14th February	Angela Chantry	Casanova: the World’s Greatest Womaniser.
10th January	Peter Atkinson	A Tale of Three Cities Beginning with S: Seville, Salamanca and San Sebastián.
2016
13th December	Tom Stevenson	The Jacobite Rebellions (or Risings).
8th November	Alan Oliver	Portuguese Maritime Explorers, followed by Columbus and Magellan.
11th October	Cheda Panajotovic	The Borgias.
14th June	Mike Rendell	Royal Shenanigans in the 18th Century.
10th May	Angela Chantry	Femme Fatale: the Intriguing Story behind the Life and Death of Mata Hari.
12th April	Dee Craig	Cecil Rhodes.
8th March	Peter Atkinson	The Life and Work of the Catalan Architect, Antoni Gaudí.
9th February	David Thoms	Upstairs, Downstairs: English Landed Society in the 19th & 20th Centuries.
12th January	Tom Stevenson	History of Scotland 1603-1714: the Stuarts.
2015
9 Dec	Mike Granville	What About Magna Carta? Did she die in vain?
10 Nov	Alan Oliver	The Battle of Waterloo.
13 Oct	Cheda Panajotovic	The Plundering of Old Egypt.
9 June	Fabio Bezoari	Alpi at War.
12 May	Dee Craig	Catherine the Great.
14 April	Angela Chantry	Eva Perón (1919 –1952): Her Life, Her Legacy and the Legend.
10 March	David Thoms	The Roaring Twenties and The Making of Modern America.
10 Feb	Mike Frost	Life in the Royal Navy, 1600-1970.
13 Jan	Cheda Panajotovic	Whilst London Sleeps, Samual Pepys.
2014
9th December	Peter Atkinson	A Tale of Two Cities: Madrid and Barcelona.
11th November	Alan Oliver	The Peninsular War, 1808-1814.
14th October	Tom Stevenson	A History of Scotland Prior to the ‘Union of the Crowns’ in 1603.
10th June	Mike Granville	What If? Some Alternative Histories.
13th May	Cheda Panajotovic	Yugoslavia: The Country That Almost Was.
8th April	Mike Rendell	Slavery and the Abolition Movement.
11th March	Dee Craig	Catherine de Medici.
11th February	David Thoms	The American Wild West, 1865-1890: Myth and Reality.
14th January	Angela Chantry	Amelia Earhart.
2013
10th December	Peter Atkinson	A History of Andalucía.
12th November	Mary Connatty	The Spanish Armada.
8th October	Peter Atkinson	The Birth of a Nation: the American War of Independence and its Aftermath.
10th June	Angela Chantry	Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? Part 2: The Red Queen, Margaret Beaufort.
13th May	Dee Craig	Victoria’s Children.
15th April	Angela Chantry	Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? Part 1: the White Queen, Elizabeth Woodville.
11th March	Cheda Panajotovic	The Causes of World War I.
11th February	Larry Sherrington	The British Empire in India and the part the East India Company Played in It.
14th January	Fabio Bezoari	Sicilian Pilgrimage.
2012
10 Dec	Peter Atkinson	Four Times a Pilgrim: the Medieval Routes to Santiago de Compostela.
12 Nov	David Thoms	Buckets and Spades: a Social History of the British Seaside Holiday.
5 Nov	Peter Atkinson	The Making of The President: A Brit’s Guide to American Elections.
8 Oct	Mike Rendell	Vignette of life in 18th Century England.
11 June	Clive Hedge	Mrs Wallis Simpson
14 May	Mike Granville	The Decline of the Spanish Empire
2 April	Geoff Woodward	Juan Carlos I: The Reason That Spain Has a Democracy Today
12 March	Fabio Bezoari	From Bushman Land to … Namibia
13 Feb	Peter Atkinson	From Ancient Greece to London E15: a History of the Olympics
9 Jan	Cheda Panajotovic	Mary Tudor: the NICE ‘Bloody Mary’
2011
5 Dec	David Thoms	Gotcha! Law & Order in Victorian England
14 Nov	Mike Frost	Peter the Great and Saint Petersburg
17 Oct	Angela Chantry	The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
13 June	Clive Hedge	Jack The Ripper, Motivator or Manipulator?
9 May	Fred Crowson	The Last British Civil War. The road to Appomattox courthouse.
11 Apr	Fred Crowson	The Last British Civil War. The rise of Confederacy.
8 Mar	Geoff Woodward	The history of Gata de Gorgos as a microcosm of the Marina Alta.
14 Feb	Maureen Stanley	Hatsepshut Of Egypt: The Queen Who Would Be King.
11 Jan	Clive Hedge	The White Star Line Featuring Olympic And Britannic.
2010
02-Dec-10	Peter Atkinson	Texas, Part 2, Reconstruction to Apollo XI.
08-Nov-10	Peter Atkinson	Texas, from Spanish Colony to NASA HQ: the story of the Lone Star State. Part 1, Pre-Columbus to Civil War.
11-Oct-10	Fabio Bezoari	The Anasazi or the Ancient Foreigners of the USA Four Corners region.
07-June-10	Sue Bentley	After Katherine – Henry and His Wives.
10-May-10	Angela Chantry	Boabdil, the last Sultan of Granada.
14-Apr-10	Alan Oliver	Spanish History, 1939 to the Present.
8-Mar-10	Alan Oliver	The second Republic 1930-1939 and the Spanish Civil War.
8-Feb-10	John Chun	Operation Grapple.
11-Jan-10	Cheda Panajotovic	From Cavemen to Emperors.
2009
07-Dec-09	Peter Atkinson	What Did the Romans Do for Spain?
09-Nov-09	Maureen Stanley	The Maya – Divine Kings of the Rain Forest.
26-Oct-09	Fabio Bezoari	I Have Seen Auschwitz.
13-Oct-09	Clive Hedge	Capt. James Cook – a Yorkshireman’s Tribute.
08-Jun-09	Angela Chantry	The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole.
11-May-09	Alan Oliver	The Decline of the Spanish Monarchy 1814 to 1930.
06-Apr-09	Sue Bentley	Katherine of Aragon: “The Queen of Earthly Queens”.
09-Mar-09	Fed Crowson	The Indian Mutiny.
09-Feb-09	John Reynolds	Victorian Tourists in Spain.
2008
08-Dec-08	Larry Sherington	A history of punishment and imprisonment throughout the ages.
10-Nov-08	Peter Atkinson	The Spanish Inquisition.
13-Oct-08	Clive Hedge	Charles Herbert Lightoller.
28-Jun-08	Alan Oliver	The Peninsular War.
30-May-08	Clive Hedge	History Quiz.
25-Apr-08	David Thoms	Interpretations of the Spanish Civil War.
28-Mar-08	Sally Wells & Angela Chantry	Seville & Cordoba – History, Architecture.
29-Feb-08	Clive Hedge	The Defence of Rorke’s Drift.
25-Jan-08	Maureen Stanley	Queen Victoria and the Emperor of Ethiopia.
2007
30-Nov-07	Fred Crowson	Oliver Cromwell – Hero or Villain.
26-Oct-07	Clive Hedge	The Great Enterprise Featuring the Invincible Armada.
28-Sep-07	Peter Atkinson	The life and work of the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi.
30-May-07	Angela Chantry	The Borjas of Gandia.
20-Apr-07	Clive Hedge	Mutiny on the Bounty: exploding the Hollywood myth.
02-Feb-07	David Thoms	The modernization of Spain since the 19th century.
2006
24-Nov-06	Mary Sears	Our Own Moors and Christians.
27-Oct-06	Peter Atkinson	Moors and Christians.
12-Jun-06	Angela Chantry	The Monastery at Montserrat.
05-May-06	Peter Atkinson	Santiago de Compostella by bike.
05-Apr-06	Maureen Stanley	Eleanor of Aquitaine.
03-Mar-06	David Thoms	Shakespeare’s Stratford.
27-Jan-06	Maria Hollingsworth	Buried Treasure in Cirros de los Santos.
2005
23-Nov-05	Ron Daniels	The Spanish Armada.
30-Jun-05	Guided tour of Javea Pueblo.
11-May-05	Peter Atkinson	Santiago de Compostella pilgrimage.
14-Apr-05	Angela Chantry	Women’s role in reform in 19th century.