Ealing Historical Association

Date	Speaker	Topic
13 September 2022	Professor Toby Green	West African and World History: A New Perspective
11 October 2022	Dr Alexander Morrison	War and Diplomacy in the Russian Empire, ca. 1850–1914
8 November 2022	Professor David Hendy	Writing a “People’s History” of the BBC
10 January 2023	Professor David Reynolds	Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: Allies of a Kind
14 February 2023	Professor Ted Benton	Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection and after
14 March 2023	Dr Clare Jackson	Charles II – an unlikely success
11 April 2023	Dr Robert Lyman	A War of Empires: The Importance of the Indian contribution to the Second World War in the East
9 May 2023	Dr James Ross	Henry VI and the Origins of the Wars of the Roses
12 September 2023	Professor Michael Clarke	Why Wellington won – and Napoleon lost – the Battle of Waterloo
10 October 2023	Dr Alexander Morrison	Russia’s colonial allergy, from Central Asia to Crimea
14 November 2023	Dr Sarah-Louise Miller	Wargame Women: The Women’s Royal Naval Service and the Western Approaches Tactical Unit During the Battle of the Atlantic
9 January 2024	Professor Ryan Lavelle	Cnut the Great: King of the English
13 February 2024	Professor Alexandra Walsham	In the Shadows and under the Cross: Roman Catholicism in Early Modern England
12 March 2024	Professor Matthew Hughes	The Arab Revolt in Palestine in the 1930s
9 April 2024	Emeritus Professor Penny Corfield	Who Formed Britain’s “New Aristocracy of Talent” in the Eighteenth Century – and What Did Their Advent Signify?
14 May 2024	Professor Marisa Linton	Robespierre and the French Revolutionary Terror
11 June 2024	Professor James Crossland	Anarchists, Fenians, Nihilists!: London and the First “Age of Terror”, 1867–1909
10 September 2024	Professor Jonathan Phillips	The Memory of the Crusades in western Europe and the Near East from the C18th to the present day
8 October 2024	Emerita Professor Catherine Hall	Capitalism and Slavery. Where are we now?
12 November 2024	Emeritus Professor Chris Read	Violence and peaceful persuasion in Lenin’s approach to the Russian Revolution 1917–24
14 January 2025	Dr Andrew Lownie	Issues in Writing Modern Political Biographies
11 February 2025	Anne Fletcher	Widows of the Ice: The Women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Left Behind
11 March 2025	Emeritus Professor James Manor	The Debatable Resilience of Nehru’s Liberal Democracy in India
8 April 2025	Dr Patrick Doyle	A Rich Man’s War and a Poor Man’s Fight? Revisiting Class in the Confederacy During the U.S. Civil War
13 May 2025	Professor Rebecca Earle	What can you learn from a cookbook (other than how to cook)?
10 June 2025	Dr Ismini Pells	Maimed Soldiers, War Widows and the Human Cost of the English Civil Wars: stories from the Civil War Petitions project
9 September 2025	Emeritus Professor Anthony Howe	Free Trade or Tariffs? The British experience, 1780–1914
14 October 2025	Dr Daniel Cowling	Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945–49
4 November 2025	Professor Lucy Wooding	English Reformations: continuity and change in Tudor religion
13 January 2026	Professor James Bjork	Where are the Poles? Redefining National Belonging in Poland after the Second World War
10 February 2026	Professor Kate Cooper	The Family in Slavery and Freedom: Evidence from Late Antiquity
10 March 2026	Dr Ariel Hessayon	The Early Quakers and the English Revolution, 1641–1660
14 April 2026	Professor Rebecca Earle	What can you learn from a cookbook (other than how to cook)?
12 May 2026	Professor Nicholas Guyatt	Jefferson’s Wolf: The Struggle to End Slavery in the Founding Era
9 June 2026	Professor Heather Jones	The First World War in the Mediterranean