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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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September 2018 Lecture
The Road to the Armistice: How the First World War Ended by Professor David Stevenson: International History, LSE November 1918: The railway wagon, number 2491D, constructed before the beginning of ...
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March 2017 Lecture
The popular perception by the general public of the relationship between England and France, has always been hostile, but in reality, the history of the relationship between the two countries, ...
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February 2017 Lecture
After an absence of ten years, Professor Carl Bridge, of Kings College, London, returned to Guildford, to talk to the West Surrey branch on ‘From the Far Ends of the ...
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January 2017 Lecture
It was with great anticipation, that we welcomed back Dr Robert Saunders of Queen Mary, University of London, after an absence of two years, to talk to us on the ...
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