November 2020 Lecture Report – Race, Region and Rebellion
Race, Region and Rebellion: The Origins of the American Civil War 1846-1861 by Prof Lawrence Goldman, University of London. The American civil war lasted for 4 years, in which 700,000 ...
October 2020 Lecture Report – Accidental Death in Tudor Surrey
Accidental Death in Tudor Surrey: How People Died Reveals Much About How They Lived by Professor Steven Gunn, Professor of Early Modern History, Merton College, Oxford. Professor Steven Gunn is ...
September 2020 Lecture Report – Whose Heritage?
Whose Heritage? Imperial trophies and national treasures from the Elgin Marbles to the Benin Bronzes. Emeritus Professor Tony Stockwell, Royal Holloway College, University of London. 29 September 2020 The original ...
February 2020 Lecture – Aspects of American Foreign Policy in the Nuclear Age
Aspects of American Foreign Policy in the Nuclear Age by Dr Jonathan Hunt, University of Southampton. Dr Jonathan Hunt is shortly to attend a conference at the UN Headquarters, to ...
November 2019 Lecture – The Tudor Rebellions
The Tudor Rebellions by Stephen David No English King had died on the battlefield since King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, and Henry Tudor, according to propaganda, bought peace ...
October 2019 Lecture – 1919: The Year that Changed China
1919: The Year that Changed China by Dr Elisabeth Forster, Lecturer of Modern China (University of Southampton) 1919 was the year in Chinese history, that generated the most significant and ...
April 2019 Lecture: From Satellite City to Global City: London 1500-1700
Dr Ian Archer: Associate Professor in History, Keble College, University of Oxford. In 1550, the population in London was 75, 000, which made London the sixth most populous city in ...
March 2019 Lecture – Disraeli and the Transformation of Victorian Conservatism, 1846-1880
Professor Lawrence Goldman, St Peters College, University of Oxford Disraeli was the grandson of an eighteenth century Italian immigrants, with his parents being booksellers in Buckinghamshire. Disraeli commenced his career ...
February 2019 Lecture – The Rise and fall of the Britsh Nation
Professor David Egerton: History of Science and Technology and Modern British History, King’s College, London The United Kingdom in the 1900s was an exceptional country. British coal was exported throughout ...
January 2019 Lecture: Not so much an Empire more a World System by Professor John Darwin
Not so much an Empire more a World System: The British Empire in Global Perspectives There are currently 3 myths concerning European colonial empires 1) Empires are only a European ...
December 2018 Lecture – Henry III, Simon de Montfort and the Crisis of Kingship in the Thirteenth Century
Professor David Carpenter: Professor of Medieval History, Kings College, London - Henry III, Simon de Montfort and the Crisis of Kingship in the Thirteenth Century Guildford Castle was a very ...
November 2019 Lecture – Why did the Habsburg Empire collapse during the First World War?
Professor Mark Cornwall: Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton This year is the hundredth anniversary of the last Emperor, Karl, standing down as Emperor of the Habsburg Empire ...
