Dr. Emily Winkler, Lecturer in Medieval History, St Edmund Hall & Hertford College, University of Oxford ...
Lecture by Professor David Carpenter, University of London: 'Why is 2025 not 2015 the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta?' The discovery of the final version of Magna Carta, bearing the commitment of the King and reached after a time of baronial conflict, is a remarkable story. David Carpenter is a leading authority on the history of Britain in the central ...
The Graham Searle Lecture - Prof. Colin Jones, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary, University of London - "With terror riding pillion": A Duchess, Her Letters, and Confronting the French Revolution ...
21 Oct 2025 - Prof. Saliha Belmessous, British Academy Global Professor, University of Oxford - Empire and Obligation: Rethinking Colonial Relationships as Social Contracts (Insights from the British and French Empires, 19th–20th Century). About Professor Saliha Belmessous British Academy Global Professor; Fellow of Corpus Christi Professor Belmessous challenges traditional views of colonialism by exploring the idea of a "social contract" ...
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 ...
