8 March 1986
Tim Blanning (Sidney Sussex): ‘The French Revolution’
Hugh Brogan (Essex): ‘The value of American History’
Valerie Pearl (New Hall): ‘Gardens and cookery books in seventeenth-century London’
7 March 1987
Boyd Hilton (Trinity): ‘Religion and the dogma of free trade in nineteenth-century Britain’
Roger Schofield (Clare): ‘Reconstructing the Population History of England: an example of collaboration between local and University historians’
Lord Dacre (Peterhouse): ‘The Continuity of Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England’
5 March 1988
John Röhl (Sussex): ‘The First World War – some recent developments in the continuing controversy’
David Morgan (School of Oriental and African Studies, London): ‘The Mongol Impact on Europe’
John Vincent (Bristol): ‘Thatcherism’
4 March 1989
John Adamson (Peterhouse): ‘Barons’ Wars and Civil Wars – England 1639-1651’
John Iliffe (St John’s): The History of Famine in Africa’
Philip Bell (Liverpool): ‘Origins of the Second World War’
10 March 1990
Gillian Sutherland (Newnham): ‘Assessing Children – A Historical Perspective’
Patrick Collinson (Trinity): ‘Religion in the England of Shakespeare’s Youth’
Jonathan Haslam (King’s): ‘The Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union’
2 March 1991
Jim Smyth (Trinity Hall): ‘Nineteenth-Century Ireland: new perspectives’
Eamon Duffy (Magdalene): ‘Popular religion in the sixteenth century’
Jonathan Steinberg (Trinity Hall): ‘The Holocaust’
7 March 1992
Rosemary Horrox (Newnham): ‘Richard III: King or anti-king?’
Mark Goldie (Churchill): ‘The Hilton Gang: religious persecution in the 1680s’
Susan Bayly (Christ’s): ‘Fundamentalism and nationhood in India: the battle to repossess India’s history’
6 March 1993
Tim Blanning (Sidney Sussex): ‘The French Revolution and the primacy of Foreign Policy’
Susan Brigden (Lincoln College, Oxford): ‘The English Reformation’
B.W. Collins (Buckingham): ‘Southern Secession Revisited’
5 March 1994
Christine MacLeod (Bristol): ‘Whatever happened to the Industrial Revolution?’
John Henderson (Wolfson): ‘Plague and Society in early modern Italy: the case of Florence’
Mike Sewell (Selwyn): ‘The Decline of Britain: the Rise of the USA’
4 March 1995
John Morrill (Selwyn): ‘Oliver Cromwell’
Tony Badger (Sidney Sussex): ‘The Civil Rights Movement’
Bob Scribner (Clare): ‘Luther, Zwingli and Calvin: one reformation or many?’
2 March 1996
David Smith (Selwyn): ‘Oliver Cromwell: Where do we stand?’
Jonathan Parry (Pembroke): ‘Gladstone: Can we make sense of his character?’
John Barber (King’s): ‘Stalin reassessed’
8 March 1997: Theme: ‘Memoirs and Biography’
Peter Clarke (St John’s): ‘Margaret Thatcher’s place in history’
Eric Evans (Lancaster): ‘Lives and Lives and Times: Reflections on Historical Biographies’
Piers Brendon (Churchill): ‘Churchill: views and reviews’
28 February 1998: Theme: ‘From Cradle to Grave’
Ole Grell (Cambridge Wellcome Unit): ‘The social and religious rationale for a new system of welfare in early modern Europe’
Ruth Richardson (University College, London): ‘Dr Joseph Rogers and the Reform of Workhouse Medicine’
Ray Jobling (St John’s): ‘The Welfare State, 1948-1998’
6 March 1999: Theme: ‘Revolution’
John Sutton (Anglia): ‘Anatomy of the English Revolution, 1640-1660’
Chris Clark (St Catharine’s): ‘The 1848 Revolutions: a crisis of legitimacy?’
Justin Webb (the BBC): ‘Reporting revolution – a journalist’s view of political upheaval’
4 March 2000: Theme: ‘Fins de Siècle’
Peter Martland (Trinity Hall): ‘Listening to the Century – the 1890s’
Gary Dickson (Edinburgh): ‘The Medieval Fin de Siècle, 1000-1500’
Natalie Mears (Swansea): ‘The 1590s and the end of the Elizabethan era – but what kind of end?’
3 March 2001: Theme: ‘Odysseys and Voyages of Discovery’
Max Jones (Christ’s): ‘Between science and adventure: Captain Scott’s voyages of discovery’
Kate Pretty (Homerton): ‘The Vikings in the North Atlantic’
Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham): ‘The search for Prester John’s elusive kingdom’
16 March 2002: Theme: ‘Ireland’
Rory Rapple (Oxford): ‘The Rhetoric of Violence in Sixteenth Century Ireland’
Eugenio Biagini (Robinson): ‘Gladstone and the late-Victorian attempts to “pacify Ireland”’
Peter Martland (Pembroke): ‘Interpreting Ireland: John McCormack and the Irish Diaspora, 1910-1950’
15 March 2003: Theme: ‘Anniversaries’
Mike Sewell (Selwyn): ‘The Cuban Missile Crisis after Forty Years: New Evidence and New Perspectives’
John Guy (Clare): ‘Making Sense of Elizabeth I’
Chris Ward (Robinson): ‘Stalin and the Purges of the 1930s: What the Specialists Think’
13 March 2004: Theme: ‘War and its Legacy’
Tim Blanning (Sidney Sussex): ‘The Wars of Italian and German Unification’
Dan Todman (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘The Legacy of Total War: Britain, 1919-1998’
Rosemary Horrox (Fitzwilliam): ‘The Wrong Sort of War? Honour in the Wars of the Roses’
12 March 2005: Theme: ‘Turning Points that did not Turn’
Mark Nicholls (St John’s): ‘Why “Remember, Remember the Fifth of November”? The Significance of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot’
Holger Hoock (Selwyn): ‘Trafalgar: The strategic and cultural significance of a naval battle’
Hubertus Jahn (Clare): ‘Russia in 1905: Revolution as a Crisis of Modernity’
11 March 2006: Theme: ‘Constitutional Dictators?‘
Colin Davis (University of East Anglia): ‘Oliver Cromwell and the Dilemma of Constitutional Rule’
Michael Sonenscher (King’s): ‘The First Empire and its Historical Significance’
John Pollard (Trinity Hall): ‘Mussolini as a Constitutional Dictator’
17 March 2007: Theme: ‘Evil Empires?’
Sean Lang (Anglia Ruskin): ‘The British Empires and its Young’
Kevin Ruane (Canterbury Christ Church): ‘American Imperialism in the Twentieth Century’
1 March 2008: Theme: ‘”Good Queen Mary, Bad Queen Bess?” Tudor Monarchs Reassessed’
Richard Rex (Queens’): ‘Mary I and Elizabeth I, 1553-1563: A Short Comparison’
Stephen Alford (King’s): ‘Tudor Monarchy and its Critiques’
7 March 2009: Theme: ‘How Wars End’
Gill Bennett (Foreign and Commonwealth Office): ‘1945: The End of the Second World War’
Mike Sewell (Selwyn): ‘1989: The End of the Cold War’
13 March 2010: Theme: ‘The Fall of Tyrants?’
David Smith (Selwyn): ‘The Fall of the British Republic’
Philip Morgan (University of Hull): ‘The Fall, and Fall of Mussolini’
19 March 2011: Theme: ‘Winners and Losers in History’
Andrew Pettegree (St Andrews): ‘The Reformation: Profit and Loss’
Edward Acton (East Anglia): ‘Who won the twentieth century in Europe: the Left or the Right?’
3 March 2012: Theme: ‘Catastrophes‘
Mark Bailey (East Anglia; and St Paul’s School): ‘The Black Death: Environmental Disaster or Economic Opportunity?’
Peter Fearon (Leicester): ‘Lessons from the 1930s Great Depression’
9 March 2013: Theme: ‘1963 – Fifty Years On’
Tony Badger (Clare): ‘Martin Luther King – Who Needs Him?’
Mike Sewell (Selwyn): ‘JFK in the Post-Cuban Crisis Moment’
Richard Davenport-Hines: ‘The Profumo Affair – the English Modernisation Crisis of 1963’
1 March 2014: Theme: ‘How Wars Begin’
David Smith (Selwyn): ‘The Outbreak of the English Civil War’
Adam Smith (University College, London): ‘The Outbreak of the American Civil War’
Chris Clark (St Catharine’s): ‘The Outbreak of the First World War’
7 March 2015: Theme: ‘Nationalisms’
Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall): ‘Seventeenth-Century Nationalisms in the British Isles – and Twenty-first Century Constitutional Resonances?’
John Pollard (Trinity Hall): ‘Religion and Nationalism in Modern European History’
Archie Brown (St Anthony’s College, Oxford): ‘Nationalisms in the Soviet Union and its successor states in comparative context’
5 March 2016: Theme: ‘United Europe?’
Susan Brigden (Lincoln College, Oxford): ‘Reformation Diplomacy: Henry VIII and his Ambassadors’
Tim Blanning (Sidney Sussex): ‘Napoleon and the destruction of Europe’
Jonathan Steinberg (University of Pennsylvania; and Trinity Hall): ‘The European Union and the “Democratic Deficit”: is there one, how did it arise and can anything be done about it?’
4 March 2017: Theme: ‘Revolutionaries and Revolutions’
Robert Tombs (St John’s): ‘The Marxists’ Model Revolution’
Chris Read (University of Warwick): ‘Russia in 1917’
Jonathan Davis (Anglia Ruskin): ‘The aftermath and legacy of the Russian Revolutions’
3 March 2018: Theme: ‘Peace in our Time?’
Brendan Simms (Peterhouse): ‘Westphalia, 1648: an order for Germany and Europe and a model for the Middle East’
Adam Zamoyski: ‘The Congress of Vienna, 1814-15’
Geoffrey Hicks (East Anglia): ‘From Versailles to Munich, 1918-38’
9 March 2019: Theme: ‘Regime change(s)’
Andrew Spencer (Murray Edwards): ‘England, 1399: from Richard II to Henry IV’
David Smith (Selwyn): ‘The English Revolution of 1649’
Hanno Balz (Trinity Hall): ‘The Nazi takeover in Germany, 1933/4’
21 March 2020: Conference postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic
13 March 2021: Theme: ‘Summits and summitry: meetings that shaped the world?’ [held remotely via Zoom]
John Morrill (Selwyn): ‘The Putney Debates, 1647’
Piers Brendon (Churchill): ‘Munich, 1938’
Nicolas Kinloch: ‘Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1961’
12 March 2022: Theme: ‘Coups d’état’ [held remotely via Zoom]
Michael Hicks (Winchester): ‘Richard III’s 1483 coup’
Marisa Linton (Kingston): ‘Napoleon Bonaparte and 18 Brumaire’
Rana Mitter (St Cross College, Oxford): ‘Internationalism and ideology: the fall of the Nationalists and the rise of Communist China, 1945-50’
8th October 2022: Theme: “The March on Rome- a Century On” [held remotely via Zoom]
Celia Donert (Wolfson College, Cambridge): ‘The New Europe: Revolution and Counter-revolution after the First World War’
Richard Bosworth (Jesus College, Oxford): ‘The March on Rome: a centenary and its meaning’
Nathan Kunkeler (Oslo University): ‘The March beyond Rome: the impact of the Fascist seizure of power in Europe’
11th March 2023: Theme: “Understanding Russia?”
Chris Read (University of Warwick): ‘Russia’s perennial border problem: Imperial expansion or national defence in the period 1854-1964’
Jonathan Davis (Anglia Ruskin University): ‘Stalin in the 1930s: Builder and destroyer’
Peter Waldron (University of East Anglia): ‘Russia and the autocratic tradition in the period 1855-1964’ (summary provided in absentia)
9th March 2024: Theme: “Challenging Power”
Paul Cavill (Pembroke): ‘The 1549 “Rebellion” in Cambridgeshire’
Fernanda Gallo (Homerton): ‘Reconfiguring the State in Nineteenth-Century Italy’
Bobby Lee (Selwyn): ‘Indigenous Challenges to State Power in Nineteenth-Century North America’
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