Announcements
2023-24 Programme
Tuesday 26 September 2023: The People of 1381. Prof. Helen Lacey, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Prof. Adrian Bell, University of Reading. Tuesday 17 October 2023: The Gentleman's Magazine: A Panorama of Georgian England. Julian Pooley, Surrey History Centre & The University of Leicester. Tuesday 14 November 2023: The ...
Upcoming Lectures & Visits
Tuesday 5 December 2023: Enlightenment, Abolition and Emancipation. Rethinking the British Anti-Slavery Movement, 1780-1840
Prof. Lawrence Goldman, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Lawrence Goldman FRHistS is the former director of the Institute of ...
Tuesday 23 January 2024: Doing History in Public Places: Lessons from a Historic England Project on Europe’s Largest Psychiatric Cemetery, in Surrey
Dr. Alana Harris, King’s College London. Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The Friends of Horton Cemetery was awarded a ...
Thursday 15 February 2024: The assassination of Alexander II
Dr. Daniel Beer, Royal Holloway, University of London. Daniel Beer is Reader in Modern European History at Royal Holloway and ...
Tuesday 19 March 2024: The French Revolution: A Peasants’ Revolt
Prof. David Andress, University of Portsmouth. David Andress is a historian of the French Revolution, and of the social and ...
Tuesday 16 April 2024: Did Indigenous Peoples shape Europe’s Global Expansion?
Prof. Zoltán Biedermann, University College London. Zoltán Biedermann is a historian of early global interactions occurring in the context of ...
Tuesday 14 May 2024: ‘An Irish Louvain’: Memories of 1914 and the Moral Climate in Britain during the Irish War of Independence
Dr. Edward Madigan, Royal Holloway, University of London. When the British government declared war against Germany in August 1914, a ...