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 ...
The Tudors are always a popular subject with branch members and school visitors alike, and Professor Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford) will present a fresh perspective on the period in her lecture Contesting the Royal Succession in Mid-Tudor England which will feature her current research into the reigns of Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth I. Professor Kewes is Chair of ...
Another popular former speaker, Dr Robert Saunders, returns. Having previously spoken to us about Chartism – when he unforgettably broke into song – and Margaret Thatcher, on this visit he will address "The scum gathers when the nation boils": Sir Robert Peel, the Corn Laws and the Crisis of Conservatism. Dr Saunders is Reader in Modern British History at Queen ...
Dr Eleanor Parker of Brasenose College, Oxford, will deliver a lecture on the subject of her recent book, Conquered: Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England. Dr Parker will take a novel angle on a well-covered period by focusing on the lives of children whose lives were turned upside down by the extraordinary events of 1066. Dr Parker’s book has been widely ...
In February we turn to a subject that has been somewhat neglected in previous programmes: Twentieth Century Spain. Dr David Brydan from King’s College London will discuss Uncivil Peace: Politics, Repression and Memory in Spain since 1939. Dr Brydan is a member of the Centre for the Study of Internationalism as well as a Reviews Editor for Contemporary European History ...
Professor Penelope Corfield is President of the International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, as well as Emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. Following the publication of her wide-ranging new book, The Georgians, earlier this year, she will address The New Aristocracy of Talent in Eighteenth-Century Britain - and What it Meant ...
