Opportunities in and near Bordon

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Bob Simmons FRAeS draws on 25 years of real-world civil and defence aviation experience to trace human factors from error management to just culture and integrated safety systems. Explore how automation, AI and new entrants are reshaping operational safety.

Hear Dr Alice Hunt, Associate Professor at Southampton University, lead a discussion on Britain’s revolutionary decade after the Wars. Explore the period’s political, social and religious upheavals at Friends Meeting House in Chichester.

Explore how anti-slavery ideas developed and changed across Africa in a lecture by a University College London history professor. Trace the movements through different historical contexts, with a focused look at modern African history.

Dr Alwyn Turner, a Chichester University lecturer who has published on inter-war Britain, leads a talk on the country’s shell-shocked years between the wars. Hear a specialist discuss the period at the Friends Meeting House in Chichester.

Explore how food, supply and daily life shaped medieval society in an in-person lecture from Prof. Helena Hamerow, Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Hear the talk at St Nicolas’ Hall in Guildford.

Hear Dr Elizabeth Drayson, Emerita Fellow in Spanish at Cambridge, explore the historical relationship between Islam and Europe’s development in an in-person evening lecture in Guildford, held at St Nicolas’ Hall.

An illustrated lecture with historian Julian Humphrys traces the build-up to Waterloo, the fighting on the battlefield and the strategies and personalities behind Napoleon’s defeat. Explore why this decisive battle changed Europe’s political future and is still widely studied.

Explore how pets became part of everyday culture and how animals shaped modern British life, through a talk led by Prof. Jane Hamlett, Professor of Modern British History at Royal Holloway. Join this in-person evening lecture at St Nicolas’ Hall in Guildford.

Hear Dr David Torrance, a House of Commons librarian and established writer, unpack the General Strike’s political tension, public response and lasting impact on Britain. Explore a defining moment of industrial action through his recent study at Friends Meeting House in Priory Road.

Explore how Victorian science and technology helped build and maintain Britain’s empire in a lecture led by history of science specialist Dr Craig Gershater. Hear how scientific ideas and technological developments shaped Britain’s imperial reach, in person in Chichester.

Professor Ryan Lavelle explores Anglo-Saxon political and military history, focusing on Wessex and how England formed. Drawing on his research and publications on Alfred, Cnut and Aethelstan, the lecture takes place at Winchester College, with a Zoom link available near the time.

Explore the lives of the overlooked women who served Henry VIII’s six wives at the Tudor court with Dr Nicola Clark of Chichester University. Hear about their influence at the Association’s annual Saturday afternoon meeting in Chichester.

Hear Prof. Lucy Wooding, Professor of History at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, rethink Henry VIII’s Reformation through a fresh historical lens. Explore Tudor religious and political change in an in-person evening lecture at St Nicolas’ Hall in Guildford.

Explore how British photography represented Indian peoples after the Mutiny in a lecture by Dr Xavier Guegan. The talk also examines South Asian and North African history under British and French colonial rule.

Support patients with their evening meal on a hospital ward, taking part in hands-on activities alongside staff. Volunteer one evening each week for six months in the hospital environment.

Explore how an ultra-black coating could reduce sunlight reflected by satellites in low Earth orbit, with astrophysics researcher Astha Chaturvedi explaining the research and its implications for astronomy and space sustainability. The talk covers radiation exposure tests and scanning electron microscope imaging.

Explore how witchcraft and politics moved through seventeenth-century English media in a lecture led by Dr Tabitha Stanmore of the University of Exeter. The talk takes place at Winchester College’s Science Lecture Theatre, with Zoom details available nearer the event if needed.

Professor Peter Heather of King’s College London leads an in-person lecture examining the historically controversial fall of Rome. Join the evening talk in Chichester for historical analysis and interpretation.

Explore grain millers in English popular politics, examining adultery, adulteration and profiteering across several centuries. Hear the specialist talk in person in Guildford, presented by a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford.