Past events
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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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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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