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?...

BACK INTO EUROPE Introduction: Three Presidents and a General Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Pershing Precursors to War: America at Peace...

Synopisis for Lockdown Lecture, 27th November Taking Stock We all know, what they could only guess at: World War One Wider still and...

Preface: Aftermath of wars can be both messy and lengthy Lincoln looks to the future but his time is cut short Andrew Johnson succeeds...

Synopsis Preface 1860 Presidential Election The Nature of Civil War Overview: From Ft Sumter to Appomattox The first modern war The...

A one-off lecture on Sunday 12t November for Lockdown Synopsis 1 Early days of Puritan immigration 2 The 'Great Awakening' of George...

My first lecture in the new Lockdown series on Modern America looks at the long lead-in to the Civil War. 1 Wider context post 1776 2 ...

Lockdown lecture Synopsis Monday 30 October What is Neutrality? is it multi-faceted? What is Swiss Neutrality? Does it define what the...

My lecture on Monday 23 October will follow this structure:- Reformation across Europe Reformation in Switzerland centres on two men:...

Dear Fellow Lockdowners, I shall be teaching tomorrow, Monday, as well as Tuesday this week. The two lectures will be part of the wider...

We start at the finish, ie 30/1/1649 The context of our story today: Religious divisions The childhoods of our two Principals The...

Two new books on fascinating topics by two of our popular history writers:- France on Trial Max Hastings The trial of WW1 hero, Marshal...

The 1930s began in New York on the 29th October 1929 with The Wall Street Crash. The ripples spread our across the world. Britain, like...

The Twenties One might be forgiven for thinking that with all the 'modern' changes to life, from radio broadcasts to the 'talkies', from...

The People (Working Class history, 20th century) Selina Todd The InterWar Years Robert Freeman (short pamphlet) Britain in the...

War Memoirs Vol 2 D Lloyd George The Prime Ministers (for Lloyd George) Iain Dale Our History of the Twentieth...