Lecture Programme
Thursday 4th February - Adrian Goldsworthy
Julius Caesar and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Dr Adrian Goldsworthy. Acclaimed author of 'Roman Warfare'. 'Caesar. The Life of a Colossus' and 'The Death of the Roman Superpower', Dr Goldsworthy appears regularly on TV and Radio. Formerly Assistant Professor at the University of Notre-Dame, he lectures at Birkbeck, Kings College (London), Yale and Berkeley. One of a new generation of classical scholars
Thursday 18th February - Professor William Vaughan
Samuel Palmer
William Vaughan is Professor Emeritus in History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He organised the exhibition on Samuel Palmer held at the British Museum, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005-6. He is currently completing a study of Samuel Palmer's life and career.
Thursday 4th March - Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown's Third Law: or why the world will never be the same again and what we should do about it
The Rt. Hon. Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG., KBE. (Paddy Ashdown) was a Royal Marine 1959-72, Liberal MP for Yeovil 1975-2001, Leader of the Liberal Democrats 1988-99 and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002-06. A gifted polygot, he id fluent in Mandarin Chinese and other languages.
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Thursday 18th March Annual General Meeting
Chairman's evening
Alec Oxford OBE
Frome Arrives in Sherborne - the coming of the railway in 1860
Alec Oxford was born in Sherborne and educated at Foster's School. He served as a Fleet Air Arm pilot '43 - '47. Qualifying in youth leadership at Bristol University, he did youth work in Sherborne and south-east London and was deputy director of National Youth Bureau from '71 - 82. Made an MBE in 1982. After retiring and returning to Sherborne he did some countrywide consultancy with young unemployed projects and, locally, negotiated the site and funding for, and design of 'Tinneys' ; and a similar iiniative for a play area in Bradford Abbas. Played cricket for Dorset and football for Fleet Air Arm. He is a founder member of Sherborne Bradford Abbas Camera Club and strong supporter of The Rendezvous for young people. Relevant to this talk is that his father was a porter on Sherborne station.