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Dr. Edward Madigan, Royal Holloway, University of London. The moral authority Britain gained during the First World War was undermined by the behaviour of the Crown Forces during the Irish War of Independence. [Madigan, E. (2021). Britannia’s ‘Huns’. History Today, 71, 28 – 39]

Prof. Zoltán Biedermann, University College London. Zoltán Biedermann is a historian of early global interactions occurring in the context of “European expansion” especially in Asia. He joined UCL in 2013 to help set up the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies programme while also expanding the provision of historical contents. His focus is on early modern diplomacy,…

Prof. David Andress, University of Portsmouth. David Andress is a historian of the French Revolution, and of the social and cultural history of conflicts in Europe and the Atlantic world more generally in the period between the 1760s and 1840s. He has written a number of books, of which the best-known is probably The Terror,…

Prof.  Daniel Beer, Royal Holloway, University of London. Daniel Beer is Professor  of Modern European History at Royal Holloway and a specialist on Russia. He has published widely on the social and cultural history of the Russian Empire and has a particular interest in crime and punishment. On 13 March [1 March, Old Style], 1881,…

Professor Andrew Jotischky from Royal Holloway. ———————————————————— Resume from Royal Holloway website: I am an historian of medieval religion and culture, with particular interests in and the relationship between belief and lived experiences, and how religious institutions in the Middle Ages worked. My research and teaching covers most of medieval Europe, but I have particular…

Prof. Lawrence Goldman, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Lawrence Goldman FRHistS  is the former director of the Institute of Historical Research. A former editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.  

Prof. Helen Hackett, University College London. Professor Hackett’s lecture will be based on part of her recent book, The Elizabethan Mind, which explores the nature and scope of the mind as thought about by people in the second half of the sixteenth century. More about The Elizabethan Mind: “What is the mind? How does it…

Julian Pooley, Surrey History Centre & The University of Leicester. Julian Pooley is Public Services and Engagement Manager at Surrey History Centre as well as Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester.  Julian will deliver a lecture entitled The Gentleman’s Magazine: A Panorama of Georgian England, which will be richly embellished by his research into…

Prof. Helen Lacey, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Prof. Adrian Bell, University of Reading. The People of 1381 is an innovative new research project set to produce the most comprehensive interpretation of the Peasants’ Revolt to date. The revolt was one of the largest popular uprisings in medieval Europe and rocked the country in…