Military/Naval history
10 Jan 2017
The Declaration of London Revisited: did the Admiralty Know What It Was Doing?
Dr Alan Anderson
8 Nov 2016
The Inaugural London Journal Lecture - London at War and Peace: Crisis and Reckoning, 1702-1951
Professor Jerry White (Birkbeck, University of London), Introduction by Professor David Green (Kings College London), Concluding remarks by Professor Matthew Davies (Birkbeck, University of London)
26 Apr 2016
The Muses of War: Terror, Anger, and Faith during the Bombing of British and Japanese Cities, 1940-1945
Chair: Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck), Aaron Moore (University of Manchester)
3 Mar 2016
War, the state, and the formation of the North Korean industrial working class, 1931-1960
Dr Owen Miller (SOAS)
15 Feb 2016
Humanities activists and humanitarian aid in the First World War: G.M. Trevelyan, the British Red Cross and the Italian wounded
Marcella Sutcliffe (University of Cambridge)
3 Dec 2015
Remembering social change and political conflict in early modern England
Andy Wood (Durham)
1 Dec 2015
West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807-1844
Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds)
30 Nov 2015
The Outbreak of the First World War: Why the debate goes on
Margaret MacMillan (University of Oxford)
22 Oct 2015
Mésentente Cordiale? Languages in the Allied Coalition on the Western Front of the First World War
Franziska Heimburger (Paris 4)
14 Oct 2015
Trust the People: The English Approach to Arming and Training the 'Mob' for Home Defence, 1779-1805
Margaret Bird (Royal Holloway, University of London)
2 Oct 2015
Marxism and the Maritime: The nineteenth-century colonial steamship as an exemplary space of modernity
Jonathan Stafford (Kingston)
1 Oct 2015
Just Another War: the historical significance of the First World War
Professor Alan Sked (LSE)
12 May 2015
Why are we obsessed with the Nazis? The Third Reich in History and Memory: Sir Richard Evans and Sir Ian Kershaw in conversation with Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann
Sir Richard J. Evans, Wolfson College, Cambridge and Gresham College, London and Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield, in conversation with Professor Nikolaus Wachsman, Birkbeck, University of London
6 May 2015
Otto von Bismarck: A Bicentennial exhibition and lecture at the Institute of Historical Research
Lawrence Goldman (Director of the Institute of Historical Research) Dr Karina Urbach (IHR Senior Research Fellow) Peter Ammon (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Kingdom) Dr Ulf Morgenstern (Bismarck Foundation) Professor Jonathan
21 Mar 2015
London and the First World War - Session 5: Dissent
Richard Espley (Senate House Library), Linda Parker (Independent Scholar) and Sarah Jackson (Independent Scholar)
21 Mar 2015
London and the First World War - Session 6: Air War
Roderick Bailey (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford) and Nina Hadaway (RAF Museum)
21 Mar 2015
London and the First World War - Session 7: Leisure
Ruth Percy (Ruskin College, Oxford), Assaf Mond (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) and Rachel Richardson (Independent Scholar)
21 Mar 2015
London and the First World War - Plenary Lecture 2
Jerry White (Birkbeck, University of London)
20 Mar 2015
London and the First World War - Plenary Lecture 1
Adrian Gregory (Pembroke College, Oxford)
20 Mar 2015
London and the First World War - Session 1: Daily Life and Institutions
Peter Hounsell (Independent Scholar) and James Wearn (Kew Gardens)
20 Mar 2015
London and the First World War - Session 2: Enemy Aliens
Tony Lentin (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
20 Mar 2015
London and the First World War - Session 3: Communications and Transport
Simon Abernethy (Cambridge), Richard Dennis (University College London) and Krisztina Robert (Roehampton)