The Lost World of 1962 - Dominic Sandbrook

In this lecture, Dominic Sandbrook, the acclaimed historian of Sixties Britain, marks the 50th anniversary of the City of London Festival by looking back at Britain in 1962. Fifty years on, the Britain of Harold Macmillan, Acker Bilk, Jimmy Greaves and James Hanratty feels like a vanished world. But was life back then really so different?

Britain in the 20th Century: Thatcherism, 1979-1990 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

Margaret Thatcher’s governments encouraged the spread of ownership in Britain and 'Thatcherism' seemed for a time to be in accordance with the trends of social change. So why did it come to an end? What was the cost? How should we judge her leadership of the nation today?

Britain in the 20th Century: The Collapse of the Postwar Settlement, 1964-1979 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

The history of British politics as the post-war socialist dream soured into the winter of discontent.

Empire: Exploitation and Resistance - Professor Richard J Evans

A lecture on the impact of empire on the colonizers and the colonized, looking in particular at the comparison between the British Empire and the Belgian Congo.

Empire: From Conquest to Control - Professor Richard J Evans

How and why European empires between 1880 and the end of the First World War slowly imposed greater control on territories that in many cases existed merely on paper.

Formal and Informal Empire in the 19th Century - Professor Richard J Evans

A lecture on the global shift from informal economic and trading empires to the formal imperial empires that still casts its shadow over the world today.

Britain in the 20th Century: The Character of the Post-war Period - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

The post war period saw the decline in British national self-confidence. – Why?

Empire in the Pre-Industrial World - Professor Richard J Evans

The early history of the empires established the great European powers: their origins, their growth, and the reasons why some flourished and some faltered.