What might a history of Britain and the world which speaks to the problems of our current world look like? How can we articulate a complex popular understanding of the past that matters for our professional and public lives in Britain today?
On 1st and 2nd May 2025, the Queen Mary Centre for British Studies hosts its first conference, British History Today. The event brings together 24 panels of experts covering a range of cutting-edge research across two days of parallel sessions. The conference will close with a plenary on the purpose of British history writing in today’s political, cultural, and higher education landscape. You can see the provisional conference programme here
The keynote lecture for this conference, the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2025, is on Thursday 1st May 2025 at 6.00pm. ‘British History from the Middle of Nowhere’, by Julia Laite (Birkbeck, University of London) is free to all, but booking is separate for the lecture.
Register your free place for Julia Laite’s lecture on 1st May here
For information contact Katy (k.pettit@bbk.ac.uk)