The Marc Fitch Lectures are a series of lectures first started in 1956 by

Marc Fitch Marcus Felix Brudenell Fitch , (5 January 1908 – 2 April 1994) was an English historian and philanthropist. Fitch was born in Kensington, London in 1908, the only child of provision merchant Hugh Bernard Fitch (1873–1962) and his wife Bert ...

, historian and philanthropist.

History

The lectures were started by Marc Fitch in 1956, and are funded by the Marc Fitch Fund, an educational charity also set up in 1956. The lectures were held at the

Institute of Historical Research The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) is a British educational organisation providing resources and training for historical researchers. It is part of the School of Advanced Study in the University of London and is located at Senate Hous ...

until 2012, when the series moved to a tour of the counties with three held a year.

Previous Lectures

* 1 February 2005 –

Roy Strong Sir Roy Colin Strong, (born 23 August 1935) is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer. He has served as director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. ...

– "Forgotten faces: regional history and regional portraiture" * 6 July 2009 – John Morrill – "The British Revolution in the English Provinces, 1640–9" * 2010 –

Steve Hindle ''yes'Steve is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Steven or Stephen Notable people with the name include: steve jops * Steve Abbott (disambiguation), several people * Steve Adams (disambiguation), several people * Steve ...

– "Below stairs at Arbury Hall: Sir Richard Newdigate and his household staff, c.1670–1710" * 2011 – Jeremy Black – "London History" * 25 June 2012 –

David Starkey David Robert Starkey (born 3 January 1945) is an English historian and radio and television presenter, with views that he describes as conservative. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before studying at Cambr ...

– "Head of Our Morality: why the twentieth-century British monarchy matters" * 18 May 2013 –

Tristram Hunt Tristram Julian William Hunt, (born 31 May 1974) is a British historian, broadcast journalist and former politician who has been Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2017. He served as the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke ...

– "Aristocracy and Industry: the Sutherlands in Staffordshire" * 25 October 2013 –

Christopher Dyer Christopher Charles Dyer CBE FBA (born 1944) is Leverhulme Emeritus Professor of Regional and Local History and director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester, England. He was appointed Commander of the Order ...

– "Corby, Northamptonshire and Beyond: The History of Industry in the Countryside" * 12 April 2014 –

David Hey David G. Hey (18 July 1938 – 14 February 2016) was an English historian, and was an authority on surnames and the local history of Yorkshire. Hey was the president of the British Association for Local History, and was a published author of seve ...

– "The Origins and Spread of Derbyshire Surnames" * 24 October 2014 –

Trevor Rowley Richard Trevor Rowley FSA (born 25 May 1942) is an English landscape historian and archaeologist known for his work on the Welsh Marches, Oxfordshire and the medieval landscape. He was a founder fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford (1990) and is now ...

– "The Making of the Shropshire Landscape" * 14 November 2015 –

Chris Mullin Christopher Paul Mullin (born July 30, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player, executive and coach. He is a two-time Olympic Gold medalist and a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee (in 2010 as a memb ...

– "Changing Face of Sunderland"

References

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