Past events
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Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain
16:00 - 18:00 10 December 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar
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Prof. Anja Laukötter (University of Jena), Colonial Botanies and Glocal Legacies: Carl Haussknecht and the 19th-Century Construction of “the Orient” in German History
13:00 - 15:00 3 December 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar
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Prof. Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge), Coercion and Markets: Reconciling Economic and Social Explanations of Slavery in Precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900
13:00 - 15:00 26 November 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar
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Dr James Koranyi (Durham University), New Europeans in the Carpathians, 1870s-1930s
12:00 - 14:00 22 October 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar
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Dr Caroline Bressey (University College London), The Black Barmaid in England: Sexuality and Performance in Publands of the fin de siècle
15:00 - 17:00 8 October 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar
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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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