Upcoming

Julia Laite (Birkbeck) ‘Murder at the edge of empire: the Beothuk people and negligent colonialism in eighteenth and nineteenth century Newfoundland'. Wednesday 10 June 2026, 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Previous guest speakers

2025 Carl Chinn Historical 'Drama and Historical Realities: the Real Peaky Blinders'.

2024 Claire Langhamer (IHR) 'Feelings at Work in Modern Britain'.

2023 Ruth Goodman 'Living History, for fun, research and the avoidance of howlers. Why a practical approach to historical enquiry has much to offer'.

2021 Lord Jonathan Sumption 'The Pandemic: Looking into the Future’.

2019 Dominic Lieven (Cambridge) 'A Very Different Great War: 1914-18 from the Eastern European Perspective'.

2018 Michael Lobban (LSE) 'Martial Law in Black and White: Whitehall, the Cape Colony and Natal - 1899-1906'.

2017 Guénaël Mettraux (Amsterdam) 'The efficacy of international criminal tribunals as recorders of history from Nuremberg to The Hague'.

2016 Sir John Baker (Cambridge) 'Magna Carta: Its Resurrection 1216- 1616'.

2015 Miles Taylor (York)

2014 Nicola Lacey FBA (London School of Economics)

2012 Linda Colley CBE, FBA (Princeton)

2011 Amanda Vickery (Queen Mary, London)

2009 Sir Hilary Beckles KA (University of the West Indies)

William E. Forbath (Texas at Austin)

Christopher Brooks (Durham)

David Wilkins (Harvard)

Sir Robert Rees Davis CBE (Oxford)

Morton J. Horwitz (Harvard)

John Langbein (Yale)

Dame Olwen H. Hufton,DBE, FBA (Oxford)

1996 Douglas Hay (Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto)

1995 Natalie Zemon Davis (Princeton)

1993 Quentin Skinner FBA (Cambridge)

1992 Lawrence Stone FBA (Princeton)

1991 G.A. Pocock (Johns Hopkins)