George Washington Anthony Moss Burr (novel) Gore Vida; American Emperor (Burr) David Stewart ...

Caesar Adrian Goldsworth Rome ed. Jon Lewis Nero Everitt & Ashworth Napoleon the Great Andrew Roberts King...

HEROES WITH FEET OF CLAY: CLIVE OF INDIA & FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The phenomena of knocking 'heroes' off their plinths and exposing their...

Definitions, Joan of Arc, and Dracula The difficulty of defining heroes, eg who are heroes in the 21st century? Easier to define villains...

First African slaves arrive in Virginia 1619 Slavery persist in America until 1865 The nature of American Slavery Types of Resistance to...

Lockdown Lecture Synopsis for Monday 23 September European slave traders and slave owners in The Caribbean: English and French History of...

In this second lecture on Slave Revolts we turn to the issue of the Africans taken into slavery by the Arabs. Slavery began before Islam...

The final lecture in the present series asks this profound, and to some, unanswerable question Introduction a. 7 December 1941. Why? b. A...

A synopsis for Lockdown lecture, Monday 22 July Intro and recap The Early Years The 6 Day War and The Yom Kippur War The First Intifada...

The situation in 1945: Recap Events in Palestine and New York Last Days of The British Mandate 1947/48 1948: Israeli independence...

The Second World War in The Middle East Overview Brief references to North Africa Campaign French Mandated territories of Syria and...

Here follows my synopsis for the Lockdown Lecture for 1 July Note that the story today goes up only to the outbreak of The Second World...

Lockdown Lecture Mon 24 June SYNOPSIS Recap: Balfour Letter/Hussein-McMahon Correspondence/Sykes-Picot Agreement Introduction to...

Below is the synopsis of my lockdown lecture for 17 June. Please note this lecture and next week's will cover much of the same postwar...

Synopsis and small reading list for Lockdown lecture, 10 June 1.Britain's engagement with Middle East from The First World War onwards...

This is the title of my Lockdown Lecture for Monday 3 June The lead up to The Ottomans choosing the side of Germany British humiliation...

Please note above change of my usual day and also a change of time to two hours later. The Ottoman Empire up to World War One, 1914 OR It...

Selection of new history books Herod the Great Martin Goodman An African History of Africa Zeinab Badawi Beyond the Wall...

The Islamic Enlightenment C de Bellaigue The Enlightenment and why it still matters A Pagden The Enlightenment J Robertson...

CHRISTIAN & MOSLEM ENLIGHTENMENT Terms Definitions & Lecture's Argument Western ideas of superiority Above belief challenged by World...