Thursday, 12th November 2026 **Note earlier start time**Doors open 5.15pm Lecture 5.30-7pm. Talks free to Associate branch members, National HA members and Students, visitors £3.

From Resignation to Resistance: the Role of Popular Music in Remembering and Revering the Isle of Wight’s Royal Exiles. 

Dr Angela McShane, Warwick University

Dr Angela McShane is Honorary Reader in History at the University of Warwick. A social and cultural historian, she is researching the political world of the broadside ballad, the cultural history of intoxicants, and the material culture of the everyday.

Her talk will explore the role of the ballad in the particular context of the Islands historic role holding captive Charles I, alongside his daughter Princess Elizabeth, during the English Civil War.