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...

N.B. There are literally thousands of books on World War Two. It would take over a lifetime to read them all; but here is a first...

In the American Series on Lockdown, 15th January SYNOPSIS Setting the Scene - On both sides of The Atlantic War Comes to Europe, 1939 War...

Lockdown lecture in American Series for Monday 8 January SYNOPSIS The Thirties and The Depression Years Not solely an American crisis...

Introducing American Politics Brogan and Garratt A simple guide for those who are not American themselves Twentieth Century...

Last Lockdown Lecture from me before January. Monday 18 December SYNOPSIS TheBusiness of Ameica is Business Automobile/car Production...

Introduction: From hope to despair But hope dampened by the influenza pandemic Prohibition, a further dampener on hedonistic desires?...