The Anglo-Saxons Marc Morris The Normans Judith Green The Languages of Britain Glanville Price The...

General Books The Shortest History of Migration Ian Goldin International Migration Khalid Koser The Great Migrations John...

A History of Greenland Alex Bugeja A short but comprehensive history. More of a textbook than a historical work. The Vanished...

Mao Philip Short The Cold War John Lewis Gaddis The New Cold War Gilbert Achcar The Republic of China Xavier...

Scramble for China Robert Bickers Modern China Rana Mitter Histories of Nations (Ch on China) ed. Peter Furtado...

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...