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The Graham Searle Lecture – Prof. Colin Jones, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary, University of London – “With terror riding pillion”: A Duchess, Her Letters, and Confronting the French Revolution.

21 Oct 2025 – Prof. Saliha Belmessous, British Academy Global Professor, University of Oxford – Empire and Obligation: Rethinking Colonial Relationships as Social Contracts (Insights from the British and French Empires, 19th–20th Century). About Professor Saliha Belmessous British Academy Global Professor; Fellow of Corpus Christi Professor Belmessous challenges traditional views of colonialism by exploring the…

Prof. Richard Hoyle, Visiting Professor of Economic History at the University of Reading .

23 Sept 2025 – The President’s Lecture – Prof. Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge – Persecution and toleration in England, 1500-1700. Professor Walsham, a leading expert on the Reformation and early modern England and President of the Historical Association, will explore the complex religious landscape of England between 1500…