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...

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...