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...

Lockdown Lecture Mon 29 April Hollywood Blockbuster Opening! Who were the Ottomans? Gradual creation of an Euro-Asian Empire The great...

The Rise and Fall of The Byzantine Empire Founding of Constantinople on site of older Byzantium Fall of Western Roman Empire, Survival of...

From the The Rise of Islam to the Crusading Centuries The Pre Islamic Arabs Origins-Language-Tribal Societies- Attitude of Byzantines and...

Welcome to this first lecture in a new series looking at Jewish and Arab histories Roman Palestine Rome and Jerusalem A very brief...

An Uncertain World Continuing from last week, when we focussed on the end of one Cold War and the beginning of the next, we shall in this...

'Victory' in The Cold War creates its own problems The Wall Falls The End of History? A New Cold War Multiple players America, Russia,...

I shall not be taking the usual chronological approach to Nixon but rather concentrating on his Presidency (1969-74); and again unusually...

The American Dream and LBJ's Great Society The Puritans of the 17th century are the first to dream The Founding Fathers set the dream...

Kennedy 1917-63 A legend in his own lifetime, but does the legend still glow as bright today? Family background and early life Becoming...

The 1960s. Towards a brief analysis The Youth Movement The Women's Movement The Fight for Black Equality continues after MLK's...

Lecture Synopsis for Monday 12 Feb The Legacy of Slavery From World War II to 1954 Civil Rights: Definitions 1954 Brown v Board of...

PS As I am away towards the end of the week, I am publishing this synopsis earlier than usual VIETNAM WAR 1965-75: How are the Mighty...

'I will defend Korea as I would my own country', MacArthur KOREAN WAR 1950-53 The Forgotten War Japanese Occupation 1910-45 Russia enters...

Pearl Harbor and Onwards to 1945 Pearl Harbor Set back in The Philippines Victory in North Africa The tide turns in The Pacific after...