| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Co-ordinator: | |
| When: | On Thursday afternoons 4th Thurs of the month |
| Venue: | Members' Homes |
The History Group meets at 2pm on the fourth Thursday of each month in a hybrid format with face to face meetings in Petworth and simultaneously via Zoom.
We have just completed a review of ancient civilisations and are now exploring random examples of people, places and events with an historical perspective. The Anglo Saxon West Stoke site, the first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, five days in 1940 that set the direction of the Second World War and Ephesus are early topics..
A list of recent topics is shown below and we keep an archive of available material from past presentations. If you would like to see any of our presentations to get a flavour of what we do, please contact Norman by clicking on the Co-ordinator Link above.
American Caesars – 12 US Presidents – FDR to George W Bush
The History of China – ancient times to Mao Zedong
Chinese painting
Chinese gardens
Bayeux Tapestry
Book of Kells
The North Sea
Geology
Anglo-Saxons
Vikings
Middle Ages
Charlemagne
History of Scotland
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Stephen & Mathilda
Reformations
Minoan Civilisation
The History of Russia
Kievan Rus
Golden Horde
Rise of Muscovy
Ivan the Terrible and Boris Godunov
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
Alexander I and Napoleon
Peter the Great
The end of the Romanovs
Russian revolutions
Russia 1917-1941
Stalingrad
Russia in World War II
The Cold War
Russia post Stalin
Glasnost, perestroika and Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Central Asia
Florence Nightingale
Mongol Empire
Tamerlane
History of Persia
Towns on the Silk Road
English Social History
Introduction
Social history 800-1200
Medieval literature
Titus Salt
Poverty and the Poor Law
Social Reformers
Ancient Civilisations
Indus Valley
Egypt
Ancient Greece