The Cambridge Society of Dorset cordially invites you to their Annual General Meeting, followed by a talk on Oliver Cromwell by Dr David L. Smith and finally a three course lunch at Bryanston School.

Dr David L. Smith has been a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, since 1988.

He has been a Director of Studies in History since 1992, and a Graduate Tutor since 2004. At Selwyn he has also served as Admissions Tutor (1992-2003), and as Praelector (1996-2006).  He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1992, and he has been an Affiliated Lecturer in the Cambridge History Faculty since 1995.  His books include Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c. 1640-1649 (1994), A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707: The Double Crown (1998), The Stuart Parliaments,

1603-1689 (1999), and (with Patrick Little) Parliaments and Politics during the Cromwellian Protectorate (2007).  He has also co-edited two series of A-level textbooks for Cambridge University Press.