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• Fri 22 Mar 19 · Gilets Jaunes – an anarchist perspective (London Action Resource Centre, London)

• Thu 6 Sep 18 · A Spatial History of Drancy: Architecture, Appropriation and Memory (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Fri 29 Jun 18 · The Battle of Dettingen, 1743 (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 22 Jun 18 · Soldiers’ families during the Second World War (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 15 Jun 18 · Romania and the First World War (National Army Museum, London)

• Mon 11 Jun 18 · A Blind Eye and Dirty Hands: The Wehrmacht's Crimes (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Fri 11 May 18 · A Different Kind of Radicalisation: The British Army, victory in Tunisia and ‘The Road to 1945’ (National Army Museum, London)

• Fri 4 May 18 · The British fiasco in Norway, 1940 (National Army Museum, London)

• Mon 26 Mar 18 · Codename Suzette: An Extraordinary Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi Paris (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Tue 6 Mar 18 · “One Train May Hide Another”: Arnaud Rykner’s Le Wagon as Authentic Fiction (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Thu 9 Nov 17 · Reminiscences – Veterans (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Fri 15 Sep 17 · Alcohol, drugs and lucky charms (National Army Museum, London)

• Thu 2 Mar 17 · ‘Eve in Khaki’: Women and the British Army (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)

• Mon 20 Feb 17 · Revamping the Vamp: Mata Hari Myths and Realities (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)

• Mon 6 Feb 17 · How First World War Stretcher Bearers Changed Medicine Forever (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)

• Thu 26 Jan 17 · Protesting the Wars: Cell Block Graffiti at Richmond Castle (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)

• Thu 19 Jan 17 · Churchill, Attlee and the Generals (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Tue 29 Nov 16 · Somme: 141 Days, 141 Lives (Royal Marsden Education and Conference Centre, London)

• Wed 21 Sep 16 · Myths and Legacies of the Battle of the Somme (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Wed 31 Aug 16 · The @Special Relationship' between the Uk and the US (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)

• Tue 21 Jun 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 15 Jun 16 · A History of Drugs in Warfare – Lukasz Kamienski on Shooting Up (Book and Kitchen, London)

• Tue 14 Jun 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 7 Jun 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 31 May 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 24 May 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 17 May 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 10 May 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 3 May 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 26 Apr 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 19 Apr 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 15 Mar 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 8 Mar 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 1 Mar 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 23 Feb 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 16 Feb 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 9 Feb 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 2 Feb 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 26 Jan 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 19 Jan 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 12 Jan 16 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Mon 14 Dec 15 · Rethinking Indian Soldiers and the First World War (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Mon 30 Nov 15 · From the Suez Canal to Megiddo: The British Imperial Army's War in Sinai and Palestine, 1916-18 (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Tue 24 Nov 15 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 17 Nov 15 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Mon 16 Nov 15 · The Indian Sepoy in First World War Culture: Object, Images, Songs (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Tue 10 Nov 15 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 3 Nov 15 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Mon 2 Nov 15 · Illiterate but Literary? The Censored Correspondence of Indian Soldiers in France, 1914-1918 (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Tue 27 Oct 15 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 20 Oct 15 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Mon 19 Oct 15 · Remembering the West Indian contribution to the First World War (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Tue 13 Oct 15 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 6 Oct 15 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Mon 5 Oct 15 · British Women on the Serbian Front in 1915 (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Tue 29 Sep 15 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 22 Sep 15 · The Magnificent Age: Art, Life and Baroque (The University Women's Club, London)

• Mon 21 Sep 15 · Black Poppies - Britain's Black Community and the Great War. Stephen Bourne (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Mon 7 Sep 15 · Screening Anzacs - film and television representations of the Anzac experience of the Great War. (Army & Navy Club, London)

• Wed 24 Jun 15 · Picturing Dante/Vision's Pinnacle (Paradiso Cantos 23–33) (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 17 Jun 15 · Picturing Dante/Ever More Wonderful Shapes Before His Very Eyes (Paradiso Cantos 14–22) (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 10 Jun 15 · Picturing Dante/In Heaven with Beatrice – Mercury, Venus, the Sun (Paradiso Cantos 4–13) (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 3 Jun 15 · Picturing Dante/Through the Wall Purgatorio Cantos 27–33, Paradiso 1–3 Canto (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 20 May 15 · Picturing Dante/Graphic Accounts of Life on the Mountain (Purgatorio Cantos 17–26 (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 13 May 15 · Picturing Dante/Above the Southern Ocean ​(Purgatorio Cantos 7–16) (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 6 May 15 · Picturing Dante/Per Ardua Ad Astra ​(Inferno Cantos 31–34, Purgatorio Cantos 1–6 (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 29 Apr 15 · Picturing Dante/Imaginable Peril ​(Inferno Cantos 21–30) (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 22 Apr 15 · Picturing Dante/Pacing the Nightmare Beautifully ​(Inferno Cantos 11–20 (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 15 Apr 15 · Picturing Dante/On Not Abandoning All Hope (Inferno Cantos 1–10) (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 3 Mar 15 · Treasures of the Court / Madame de Pompadour (1745–64) (The University Women's Club, London)

• Wed 10 Dec 14 · ‘Afghanistan: Mission Accomplished? The legacy of 14 years of war’ with Maya Evans (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Fri 7 Nov 14 · EVENT CANCELLED: European challenges and the French economic strategy (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Tue 4 Nov 14 · Treasures of the Court / Marie de Medicis, Queen and Regent of France (1600–1610, 1610–1617) (The University Women's Club, London)

• Tue 28 Oct 14 · Images of the New World: British Artists 1914-18 at The Guards Museum (Guards Museum, London)

• Sun 21 Sep 14 · Myths and Mysteries of the Thames (HMS President, London)

• Thu 22 May 14 · The politics of the Imperial War Graves Commission 1917–1939 (Queen Mary, University of London, London)

• Wed 27 Nov 13 · Dirty Wars (London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Wed 16 Oct 13 · Tombs of the Vikings? Hogback Tombs Revisited (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Sat 23 Mar 13 · Heritage Crafts Conference - Manifesto for Making (V & A, London)

• Tue 18 Sep 12 · Archaeology as Rehabilitation for soldiers injured in Afghanistan (Society of Antiquaries, London)

• Wed 9 May 12 · Observing War (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 18 Apr 12 · America's Gift: Is Democracy the Answer? (Peter Pan House, London)

• Tue 13 Mar 12 · LOOK HERE UPON THIS PICTURE, THEN ON THIS Shakespeare, Art & Music (The Course, London)

• Thu 15 Dec 11 · Simon Schama on Colette (The French Institute, London)

• Thu 10 Nov 11 · Michael Morpurgo on Giono (The French Institute, London)

• Sun 9 Oct 11 · Paul Gravett – The Five Geniuses Who Transformed Comics Forever (The French Institute, London)

• Sun 9 Oct 11 · Anthea Bell – On Translating Astérix (The French Institute, London)

• Sat 8 Oct 11 · André Juillard & Yves Sente – Blake and Mortimer, the Making of (The French Institute, London)

• Sat 8 Oct 11 · Benoît Sokal & Bastien Vivès – A Drawing Happening (The French Institute, London)

• Fri 7 Oct 11 · UCL Bite-Sized Lunchtime Lecture: Oyster cards and soldiers in satire (UCL, London)

• Thu 7 Jul 11 · Kate Mosse on Maupassant (The French Institute, London)

• Thu 24 Mar 11 · Posy Simmonds on Flaubert (The French Institute, London)

• Thu 9 Dec 10 · Lancombe, Lucien (1974): love, class, hatred and the banality of evil in occupied France (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London)

• Tue 8 Jun 10 · The Last Civilisation? The Living Past in South India - Illustrated Lecture by Michael Wood and Ind (Royal Geographical Society, London)

• Tue 2 Mar 10 · Dance in Art (Shalford Hall, Shalford, Guildford)

• Tue 23 Jun 09 · Gavin Stamp on War Graves (The Gallery, London)

• Mon 9 Feb 09 · French Bonapartism: good or bad for Europe? (Wolfson Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London)

• Sat 31 Jan 09 · Remembering War, two-day symposium (The Wellcome Collection, London)

• Wed 26 Nov 08 · Can France Seduce the New European Union? (Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science, London)

• Tue 15 Apr 08 · Escape from Oxford Castle (Unlocked - Oxford Castle, Oxford)

• Thu 13 Mar 08 · The Siege of Oxford in the English Civil War (Unlocked - Oxford Castle, Oxford)

• Thu 10 May 07 · Insight with Sir Michael (Mike) Jackson: 'Macho Jacko' on War and Peace (The Frontline Club, London)

• Tue 10 Apr 07 · Hamida Ghafour, reporter and a daughter of Afghan refugees and Ahmed Rashid, author of a highly-accl (The Frontline Club, London)

• Fri 16 Mar 07 · French Elections – a Change in Store? (The Frontline Club, London)

• Thu 1 Mar 07 · Inight with Zahid Hussain - Pakistan: Struggling with Militant Islam (The Frontline Club, London)

• Fri 23 Feb 07 · Iran – Diplomacy vs. Military Approach (The Frontline Club, London)

• Tue 14 Nov 06 · The grinning shadow that sat at the feast: In commemoration of Hector Munro, 'Saki' (Gresham College, London)

• Thu 11 May 06 · Military Robots (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 7 Mar 06 · The Women’s Library Annual Lecture 2006: Pensions – Paradise or Poverty? (The Women's Library, London)

• Mon 6 Jun 05 · Presentation of The Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature 2005 (RUSI, London)

• Wed 1 Jun 05 · The Defence of Bath (Banqueting Room, The Guildhall, Bath)

• Wed 25 May 05 · Wartime Fashion (Banqueting Room, The Guildhall, Bath)

• Wed 18 May 05 · War artists and Bath (Banqueting Room, The Guildhall, Bath)

• Wed 27 Apr 05 · Open Doors Museum (British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol)

• Mon 7 Mar 05 · Jonathan Granoff - "Inner Peace and Outer Responsibilities" (Voices from the Edge, London)

• Wed 23 Feb 05 · Open Doors Museum (British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol)

• Tue 22 Feb 05 · Community in Transit: Jewish Migrants from East Central Europe in Berlin after the First World War (Parkes Insitute (History), Southampton)

• Tue 8 Feb 05 · Mary Seacole: a black nurse in the Crimean War (Insights - Lectures for the Public, Newcastle upon Tyne)

• Fri 26 Nov 04 · WJT Mitchell and Griselda Pollock (Tate Modern, London)

• Wed 24 Nov 04 · MEDIAWAR: Covering conflicts after Iraq (The Guardian Newsroom, London)

• Tue 5 Oct 04 · Rearranging Faces (Dana Centre, London)

• Mon 12 Jul 04 · Metropolitan Catastrophes: Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations in the Era of Total War (Institute of Historical Research, London)

• Fri 11 Jun 04 · Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front (Theatre Royal Bath, Bath)

• Fri 28 May 04 · The War is Dead, Long Live the War by Patrick Jones Blank Faces Theatre Company (The Guardian Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye)

• Tue 6 Apr 04 · Military Musings (Borders, Speke)

• Fri 2 Apr 04 · Hitler and Churchill (Theatre Royal Bath, Bath)

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