22 January 2019, Not so much an empire more a world-system: the British empire in global perspective by Prof. John Darwin John Darwin is a Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Global and Imperial History, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. His main field of interest has been in the history of empires, both their rise and fall, and in global history ...
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4 December 2018, Henry III, Simon de Montfort and the crisis of kingship in the thirteenth century by Prof. David Carpenter 19:30 at Guildford County School, Farnham Rd, Guildford, GU2 4LU. David Carpenter is an English historian and writer, and Professor of Medieval History at King's College London where he has been working since 1988. David Carpenter attended Westminster School ...
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13 November, Why did the Habsburg Empire Collapse during the First World War? by Prof. Mark Cornwall. 19:30 at Guildford County School, Farnham Rd, Guildford, GU2 4LU. Mark Cornwall is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton, and the UK’s leading historian of the late Habsburg Empire. His field of study is East-Central Europe in the nineteenth ...
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16th October 2018, The Chartist Crisis of 1839, or when Britain didn’t have a revolution! by Dr. Robert Sykes CBE. The lecture considers what, arguably, is the closest Britain has come to a nationwide, bottom up, populist revolution. 19:30 at Guildford County School, Farnham Rd, Guildford, GU2 4LU. Robert Sykes works include: Popular Politics and Trade Unionism in South-East Lancashire 1829-42, ...
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25 September 2018, The Road to the Armistice: how the First World War Ended by Prof. David Stevenson. 19:00 at Guildford County School, Farnham Rd, Guildford, GU2 4LU. The lecture is preceeded by the AGM. Professor Stevenson is holder of the Stevenson Chair at the London School of Economics. His main fields of interests lie in international relations during the ...
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