Markets and Marxism: USA, USSR and China Different models of economic modernity competed during the Cold War...
When Net Zero? The Climate Braking Distance The accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere determines what...
Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 This lecture explores new ways of understanding the crisis that...
Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...
Town and Crown: Why London never became an imperial capital How London developed differently from the other great capitals of...
Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...
The End of the Grotian Era? Maintaining Order and Good Governance at Sea 70% of the Earth's surface is not subject to sovereign...
War Games at the Field of the Cloth of Gold 2020 marks the 500th anniversary of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, one of the most extraordinary diplomatic events of the late medieval period.
Sir Thomas Gresham and the Tudor Court This lecture will explore Gresham’s service to the crown during the turbulent politics of mid-Tudor England.