2019/20 Speaker Programme
The Society meets at the Hull Royal Hotel, 170 Ferensway, Hull HU1 3UF
All lectures are presented in the Royal Suite and start at 7.30pm prompt.
Doors are normally open at 6.45pm but access may be delayed if lecture preparations are not complete.
The audience are requested to please be in their seats before 7.25pm
15th Oct 2019
22nd Oct 2019
29th Oct 2019
Rowing the Atlantic
Sally Kettle
The Empress and the Indian - the story of Victoria & Abdul
Shrabani Basu
The Art and Business of War
Major General (Retired) Graham Binns CBE, DSO, MC
For many the idea of rowing a boat across 3000 miles of open ocean is foolhardy at best, ridiculously dangerous at worst, so why . . .
For her Golden Jubilee in 1887, Queen Victoria received a special present: an Indian servant called Abdul Karim. The controversial . . .
Major General Binns was educated at Hymers College, and was commissioned into Yorkshire’s infantry in 1977, serving . . .
5th Nov 2019
12th Nov 2019
19th Nov 2019
26th Nov 2019
Building ethical Artificial Intelligence
“Now You’re Talking”
The Natural History of Christmas
35 years of Homicide: Reflections of a Forensic Pathologist
Professor John Murray
Professor Trevor Cox
Dr Michael Leach
Dr William Lawler OBE
As Artificial Intelligence (Al) becomes common place, we are becoming ever more reliant on these devices. But how do . . .
It is easy to overlook how truly remarkable the voice is. Mixing biology, physics and psychology, Professor Cox explores the . . .
Dr Leach’s talk reveals the pre-Christian roots of hanging mistletoe, that turkeys didn’t come from Turkey, why the robin is . . .
Dr Lawler worked at the Manchester Royal Infirmary before his appointment, in 1984 as a Home Office Pathologist for Greater . . .
14th Jan 2020
21st Jan 2020
28th Jan 2020
My Life and Music
History and Development of Maritime London
Eritrea and Ethiopia - Then
and now
Norma Fisher
Capt. William Wells
John Pilkington
Norma Fisher is recognised internationally as one of Britain’s leading pianists and teachers. She has played with many of the . . .
Starting in the year 43AD before London was settled, Captain Wells traces back to why this particular site was chosen to be the . . .
In 1868 Queen Victoria’s government mounted an extraordinary bid to rescue a dozen European hostages in the . . .
4th Feb 2020
11th Feb 2020
18th Feb 2020
25th Feb 2020
The V&A Past, Present and Future
Harold Shipman
Henry VIII and the Men Who
Made Him
Margaret Thatcher – Her Life and Achievements
Dr Tristram Hunt
John Pollard
Tracy Borman
Charles Moore
Dr Tristram Hunt will trace the V&A’s genesis from its Victorian roots, discussing how the Museum’s founding . . .
A phone call to John Pollard’s South Manchester Coroner’s Office in 1998, from a local doctor, started a chain of events which would . . .
Henry VIII is infamous for his six wives. But it was the men in his life who shaped this notorious monarch. Tracy Borman’s . . .
Charles Moore is a journalist and a former editor of The Spectator, The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph. He is now a . . .
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