Thursday, 11 February 2010

Empire into Commonwealth, 1910-2010 - Lecture series

Empire into Commonwealth, 1910-2010


A series of lectures to mark the joint centenary of the Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and the Royal Over-Seas League

Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR

Monday evenings, 7.00 to 8.30pm

1 March: The Edwardian Empire - Dr. John Darwin, Beit Lecturer in the History of the British Empire and Commonwealth, University of Oxford

12 April: The Empire/Commonwealth between the Wars - Dr. Susan Williams, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London

10 May: The Empire/Commonwealth and the Second World War - Dr. Ashley Jackson, Senior Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, King's College London

7 June: The Commonwealth in the Age of Decolonisation - Prof. Wm. Roger Louis, Kerr Professor of English History and Culture, University of Texas at Austin

5 July: The Modern Commonwealth - Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

All welcome; seats allocated on a ‘first come, first seated’ basis


For further details, contact Alex May (01865 355047 or alex.may@oup.com) or John Edwards (01732 883556 or johncoatesedward@aol.com)

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