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 Mary, University of London, and is currently researching a new history of democracy in Britain.
