The IHR World and Imperial History Seminar & King’s Contemporary British History cordially invite you to a roundtable
and launch party for
The British End of the British Empire by Sarah Stockwell
18 March 2019 at 5.30 pm at King’s College London’s Strand campus in the History Department open space on the 8th floor.
Discussants: Gareth Austin (Cambridge), Ruth Craggs (King’s) and Michael Collins (UCL).
It is helpful if you register in advance if you hope to attend, as this facilitates access to the campus. You can do this by following this link.
For directions to the department see https://www.kcl.ac.uk/history/ Contact-us.aspx : lifts take you from reception to the 7th floor; take the stairs to the 8th, and then turn left to the open space. We do hope you can join us.
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King’s Contemporary British History and the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War will host a book launch for Fighting the People’s War: the British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War, by Dr Jonathan Fennell, on Thursday 28 February 2019, at 6.00pm. 
For details, including registration, see here.
Professor David Edgerton, director of KCBH, will speak at the Institute of Historical Research on 28 January. His topic will be ‘The rise and fall of the British Nation: some reflections’. More information here.
KCBH is delighted to announce that it will co-host the Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2019, with Twentieth Century British History and OUP Journals. Professor Patricia Clavin will deliver the lecture, which will be entitled, ‘Britain and the making of Global Order after 1919’.
Tuesday 9th July 2019, 6:30 p.m.
King’s College London
Location: TBA
Please watch this space for Eventbrite registration
For more information, see here.

King’s Contemporary British History and the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War will co-host an event to celebrate the publication of Blunder: Britain’s War in Iraq by Professor Patrick Porter (University of Birmingham), in the KCL History Department on Friday 14 December 2018. Talk by the author, followed by a Q&A, and wine reception. All welcome, but booking required: see here. 
Richard Vinen, Professor of History at King’s College London, will deliver the Creighton Lecture on 28th November, in the IHR. His topic is ‘When was Thatcherism?’. For more information, and booking, click here.
The Study of Contemporary British History at King's College London