60-minute lectures

In this talk first delivered in November 2021, Malcolm Gaskill examines a witch-hunt in the community of Springfield, western Massachusetts, in the late 1640s

In this talk first delivered in October 2021, Professor Ronald Hutton examines the complex figure of Oliver Cromwell

In this talk first delivered in July 2021, historian Elinor Cleghorn takes a journey through the history of unwell women

In this talk first delivered in July 2021, historian Samir Puri explores the history of empires and their impact on global events

In this talk first delivered in June 2021, Fern Riddell takes us on an illuminating journey to uncover the sexual lives of our ancestors

In this talk first delivered in April 2021, Professor Michael Lewis and Dr David Musgrove consider what's not shown in the famous Tapestry

In this talk first delivered in April 2021, historian Cat Jarman investigates the vast globalised trading networks of the Vikings

In this talk first delivered in April 2021, historian Helen Carr considers the life and legacy of John of Gaunt

In this talk first delivered in March 2021, historian Kate Vigurs explores the lives and experiences of the women agents of SOE in WW2 France

In this talk first delivered in February 2021, historian Nathen Amin considers the myriad conspiracies and murky plots which were devised to depose Henry Tudor

In this talk first delivered in February 2021, historian Max Adams considers Britain in the years after the fall of the Roman empire

In this talk first delivered in December 2020, Michael Wood shares stories from the world’s oldest continuous civilisation

In this talk first delivered in December 2020, Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson tells the riveting stories of the men and women whose obsession with Egypt's ancient civilisation drove them to uncover its secrets

In this talk first delivered in November 2020, historian Laurence Rees considers the tyrants and their actions in the Second World War

In this talk first delivered in October 2021, historian Margaret MacMillian considers historical reasons for war

In this talk first delivered in September 2020, Charles Spencer explores the sinking of the White Ship in 1120

In this talk first delivered in in August 2020, Professor Tom Licence explores the reign of Edward the Confessor and what can be learned about the 1066 invasion

In this virtual lecture first delivered in May 2020, Chris Woolgar talks about food in the Middle Ages

In this virtual lecture first delivered in May 2020, Elma Brenner talks about disease and medicine in the Middle Ages

In this virtual lecture first delivered in May 2020, Hannah Skoda talks about how violent life really was in the medieval era

In this talk first delivered in July 2020, historian Keith Lowe takes a look at some of our most provocative Second World War monuments

In this virtual lecture first delivered in May 2020, Sally Dixon-Smith talks about love and marriage in the Middle Ages