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 and 1700. This period was ...
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, imperial ideas, travel writing, material ...
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, (London: Little, Brown, 2005), and ...
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, Alexander II, the Emperor of ...
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 interests in the eastern Mediterranean ...
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 relate to the body and ...
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 the period in Surrey and ...
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 the summer of 1381. Led ...
This lecture is cancelled ------------------------------- The 2022/23 programme will conclude with Dr Daniel Beer considering The Assassination of Alexander II. Based at Royal Holloway, University of London, Dr Beer is the author of two ground-breaking books on Imperial Russia and has a particular interest in crime and punishment. More recently Dr Beer has had a series of articles published in ...
