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Inaugural Lectures

• Professor Matthew J. Smith: '', Friday, March 4 2022
• Professor John Sabapathy: 'Goodbye Cockaigne! Working, eating, & laughing in the Anthropocene, 1250-2023', Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Upcoming Inaugurals

• Professor Benedetta Rossi, Wednesday 13 March 2024
• Professor Ali CoÅŸkun Tunçer, Tuesday, 29 October 2024
• Professor Valentina Arena, Wednesday 13 November 2024 

Neale Lectures

The annual ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº History Neale Lecture series started in 1970 when Dame Veronica Wedgwood gave her talk titled 'Oliver Cromwell and the Elizabethan Inheritance'. Read about our most recent Neale Lectures below and .

• 2023 David Mattingly: 'Decolonising ancient empire: Roman imperialism, Britain and Africa'
• 2022 Craig Muldrew: 'Capitalism: a concept too big to fail?'
• 2021 Kennetta Hammond Perry: 'Sensory Encounters With the Archive of David Oluwale'
• 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid)
• 2019 Jörg Peltzer: 'English or European? How to make an earl in fourteenth-century England'
• 2018 Mark Knights: 'Corruption and the Evolution of Office: Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850'
• 2017 Jon Lawrence: 'The culture-wars of class in post-war Britain'

Alumni Roundtables

We regularly invite our alumni community to keep in touch with us. One way we do this is through our alumni roundtable events; the latest alumni events can be found below and .

• 2024 Antonio Sennis, Benet Salway, Rebecca Jennings: 'Social Media in History'
• 2023 Hans van Wees, Patrick Lantschner, Heather Jones: 'Populism and History'
• 2022 Vivienne Lo, Elaine Leong, John Sabapathy: 'Disease and History'