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Heroes & Villains: Part 2

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

Can Peace ever be Achieved?

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

WARS & INTIFADAS

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...

Synopsis for Lockdown Lecture 8 July

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

THE BRITISH MANDATE IN PALESTINE

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...

DIVIDING UP THE SPOILS

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...

English Arabists and Zionists

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

War in The Middle East 1914-18

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...

Read On! A General Booklist

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

Lockdown Lecture Synopsis for 20 May

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

THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: The First Part

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

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