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.