2025/6 Lectures
All Lectures are held in the Guildhall at Sandwich, 6.30pm for 7pm start in either the Delf Room or the Grand Jury Room. (See the Events page for more detail.)
Thursday, 11th September 2025
Adrian Phillips (Published Historian of the Twentieth Century)
Churchill’s Bandits: The Relationships that Sustained Sir Winston in the War and Wilderness
Wednesday, 22nd October 2025
Dr. Cassandra Harrington (Art Historian of the Middle Ages)
Unmasking the 'Green Man: Foliate Heads and Masks in Gothic Art
Thursday, 13th November 2025
Pat Wilson (Playwright and local historian)
A Forest of Flags: the Scandalous Sandwich By-election of 1880
Thursday, 8th January 2026
AGM and ‘Open Forum’ - short presentations by members
Wednesday, 18th February 2026
Luke Farrell (PhD Candidate, University of Kent)
Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Tour of Kent 1573: including her stay in Sandwich
Thursday, 12th March 2026
Jean Garforth and Lynne O'Donoghue (Researchers on St. Clement’s Church)
Echoes of the Past - St Clement's Churchyard: Its History and People
Wednesday, 15th April 2026
Dr. Geoff Doel & James Frost (Kentish Folklorists and Cultural Historians)
Medieval Mummers, Mystery Plays & Pageants: with a focus on Beelzebub!
Wednesday, 27th May 2026
Dr. Sheila Sweetinburgh (Leading Medievalist and Historian of Kent)
The 'lost' St Bartholomew's Day Procession of 1532: an Exploration of Discord in Henrician Sandwich
