Past events
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Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
17:00 - 19:30 6 June 2025
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species can vanish forever, or as capable of pushing our planet to the verge of a sixth mass extinction? Join us for...
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Migrant Colonialism: South American States and European Empires, c.1830-c.1950
15:00 - 16:30 4 June 2025
Please do join us for this special lecture from our Simon Visiting Professor, Lucy Riall, FBA.
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Early Modern Masculinities: Sources, Approaches, and Cultures
16:00 - 17:30 19 March 2025
Join us for the latest in the Affective Artefacts seminar series.
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History Research Seminar - 'Bolton's Grunwick': Bulmer and Lumb and Asian Working Class Resistance
16:00 - 17:30 18 March 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker seminar series. Strike leader Pravin Parmar, known to his friends as the ‘Che Guevara of Bolton’, stands with his arm raised, a homemade picket band wrapped around his jacket. It is June 1978 and the Asian workers have walked out of the Bulmer...
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History Research Seminar: Narratives and Identities of Syrian Fighters
13:00 - 14:30 12 March 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker seminar series. This talk explores the journey of Syrian fighters from combatants driven by revolutionary fervour to key actors within the evolving military structure of post-Assad Syria. I analyse how emotional solidarity, collective trauma and...
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Kavita Puri in conversation with David Olusoga OBE
18:00 - 19:45 11 March 2025
Join David Olusoga, Professor of Public History, in conversation with journalist, radio broadcaster, and author, Kavita Puri. Together they will be discussing Kavita’s multi-award winning BBC podcast Three Million, which explores one of the darkest chapters in Britain’s colonial history: the 1943...
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Adam Rutherford in conversation with David Olusoga OBE
19:15 - 21:00 10 March 2025
Join David Olusoga, Professor of Public History, in conversation with bestselling author, geneticist and presenter, Dr Adam Rutherford, as they navigate human history, evolution, migration and how Empire continues to shape life in Britain today. Genetics is a subject with a long past, but a short history....
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History Research Seminar: The Unbearable Lightness of Liberalism: The Soviet State as a ‘Liberal Subject’ in World Trade
14:30 - 16:00 26 February 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker research seminar series. This paper examines the Soviet state’s contribution to the liberalization of international trade from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s. Looking at the USSR’s participation in the United Nations Conference on Trade and...
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Feeling With the Trouble: Affective Entanglements In and Beyond the Human
16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2025
Join us for the latest in Affective Artefacts seminar series. This event is organised in collaboration with the Fear Research Network.
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History Research Seminar - The Place of History in US Civic Education: Teaching and Learning the Declaration of Independence in the Late Nineteenth Century
12:00 - 13:30 17 February 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker seminar series. Drawing from a larger project on the history of civic education in the United States, this paper examines the place of the Declaration of Independence in the late-nineteenth-century American classroom. In so doing, it addresses a...
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