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The Failure of the First Protestant Missionaries

This lecture will introduce this series about early missionary projects in the 16th-18th centuries. Why they mostly failed; and why they still matter.

Saving the Twentieth Century

How far can experimental buildings of the 1960s and '70s be altered for new uses? Should there be new rules for a new era of conservation?

Partition of British India: 75 Years On

The 2022 Royal Historical Society Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture The...

The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination

Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner...

Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell

There have been more prisons in London than in any...

Revolutionary State? Royal Palaces in Cromwell's England

The execution of Charles I brought about the sale of...

Our Changing Bodies: The lessons of anthropometric history

What can the study of height, health and welfare teach...

The Grand Tour of Europe

The British relationship with Europe was not solely about war...

Tony Benn and the Idea of Participation

Tony Benn has been the most prominent modern spokesman of...

Iain Macleod and Decolonisation

Iain Macleod was, with Joseph Chamberlain, one of two great...

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