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Katherine Carter
Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
Brasenose College: Amersi Lecture Room
10:00am
Sat 29
Saturday, 29 March 2025
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Anna Whitelock and Lubaaba Al-Azami chaired by Matthew Stadlen
Seeds of Empire
Harris Manchester College: Chapel
6:00pm
Sat 29
Saturday, 29 March 2025
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John Kiszely
General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat
Brasenose College: Amersi Lecture Room
6:00pm
Sat 29
Saturday, 29 March 2025
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Ekow Eshun talks to Suzi Feay
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
12:00pm
Sun 30
Sunday, 30 March 2025
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Emilie A. Caspar, Laurence Rees and Leor Zmigrod chaired by Matthew Stadlen
Just Obeying Orders: The Science Behind Mass Murder and the Radical Mind
Trinity College, Levene Building: Auditorium
12:00pm
Sun 30
Sunday, 30 March 2025
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Philippe Sands talks to Richard Ovenden
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in London and a Nazi in Patagonia
Sheldonian Theatre
2:00pm
Sun 30
Sunday, 30 March 2025
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Sonia Purnell
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
4:00pm
Sun 30
Sunday, 30 March 2025
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Simon Park
Wreckers: Disaster in the Age of Discovery
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
12:00pm
Mon 31
Monday, 31 March 2025
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Barnaby Rogerson
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
12:00pm
Mon 31
Monday, 31 March 2025
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Daisy Dunn talks to Susannah Jowitt
The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It SOLD OUT
Bodleian: Convocation House
2:00pm
Mon 31
Monday, 31 March 2025
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Andrew Blick
Could it Happen Here: The Day a Prime Minister Refuses to Resign
Pusey House: Chapel
2:00pm
Mon 31
Monday, 31 March 2025
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Martin Gayford
How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters) SOLD OUT
Weston Lecture Theatre
4:00pm
Mon 31
Monday, 31 March 2025
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Tim Birkhead
The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
4:00pm
Mon 31
Monday, 31 March 2025
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Peter Lamont
Radical Thinking: How to see the Bigger Picture – with Magic
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
4:00pm
Mon 31
Monday, 31 March 2025
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James Crossland
Fighting Bolsheviks, Fooling Nazis and Making History: the Extraordinary Life of Robert Bruce Lockhart
Weston Lecture Theatre
6:00pm
Mon 31
Monday, 31 March 2025
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Sinclair McKay
Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
6:00pm
Mon 31
Monday, 31 March 2025
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Vernon Bogdanor talks to Andrew Blick
Making the Weather: Six Politicians Who Changed Modern Britain SOLD OUT
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
6:00pm
Mon 31
Monday, 31 March 2025
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Nir Arielli
The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
Weston Lecture Theatre
10:00am
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Tim Coulson
The Universal History of Us: The Science of Why we Exist
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre
10:00am
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Dorothy Armstrong talks to Oliver Soden
Threads of Empire: A New History of the World in 12 Carpets
Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building
10:00am
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Diana Darke
Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre
12:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Wendy Moore
Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War
Weston Lecture Theatre
12:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Julia Nicholson
Intrepid Women: Adventures in Anthropology CANCELLED
Weston Lecture Theatre
2:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Toby Wilkinson and Owen Rees chaired by Josephine Quinn
Beyond Rome and Greece: Egypt and the Far Edges of the Classical World
Pusey House: Chapel
2:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Matt Cook
Queer Beyond London: LGBTQ Stories from Four English Cities
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
2:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Violet Moller
Inside the Stargazer’s Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre
4:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Sue Prideaux
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Weston Lecture Theatre
4:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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David Torrance
The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government
Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building
4:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Robin Choudhury
The Beating Heart: The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ
Weston Lecture Theatre
6:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Philip Marsden
Under A Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre
6:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Bettany Hughes talks to Nick Higham
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Sheldonian Theatre
6:00pm
Tue 1
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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Lyndal Roper talks to Cal Revely-Calder
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War
Pusey House: Chapel
10:00am
Wed 2
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
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Tim Tate
To Catch a Spy: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold
Bodleian: Convocation House
10:00am
Wed 2
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
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Jeremy Mynott
The Story of Nature: A Human History
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
12:00pm
Wed 2
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
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Tim Lankester talks to Matthew Stadlen
Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy
Weston Lecture Theatre
12:00pm
Wed 2
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
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David Starkey introduced by Nick Higham
A 21st Century Perspective: Our Life and Times Today
Sheldonian Theatre
12:00pm
Wed 2
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
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Simon Ings
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre
4:00pm
Wed 2
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
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Simon Mayall
The House of War: The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
6:00pm
Wed 2
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
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Sjeng Scheijen
The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917–1935
Weston Lecture Theatre
6:00pm
Wed 2
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
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Beaty Rubens introduced by Samuel Fanous
Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home
Weston Lecture Theatre
10:00am
Thu 3
Thursday, 3 April 2025
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Sheilagh Ogilvie
Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre
10:00am
Thu 3
Thursday, 3 April 2025
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Richard Reid talks to Nick Higham
The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century
Pusey House: Chapel
12:00pm
Thu 3
Thursday, 3 April 2025
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Bruce Boucher Steven Parissien
John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Reflections on an Architect and His Collection
Weston Lecture Theatre
12:00pm
Thu 3
Thursday, 3 April 2025
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Motti Golani
Chaim Weizmann: A Biography CANCELLED
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
12:00pm
Thu 3
Thursday, 3 April 2025
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Ben Macintyre
The Siege
Sheldonian Theatre
2:00pm
Thu 3
Thursday, 3 April 2025
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Gavin Francis
The Bridge Between Worlds: A Brief History of Connection
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre
6:00pm
Thu 3
Thursday, 3 April 2025
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Eugene Rogan and Peter Hill
The Damasus Events and the Prophet of Reason
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
6:00pm
Thu 3
Thursday, 3 April 2025
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Anthony Julius talks to Rebecca Abrams
Abraham: The First Jew
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
6:00pm
Thu 3
Thursday, 3 April 2025
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César Merchan-Hamann introduced by Samuel Fanous
Jewish Languages and Book Culture
Weston Lecture Theatre
10:00am
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Ronald Hutton and Alice Hunt chaired by Daniel Brooks
Oliver Cromwell and a British Revolution
Sheldonian Theatre
12:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Phil Tinline
Ghosts of Iron Mountain
Bodleian: Convocation House
12:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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T J Clark
Those Passions: On Art and Politics
Weston Lecture Theatre
12:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Andrea di Robilant
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
12:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Andrew Ziminkski
Church Going: A Stonemason’s Guide to the Churches of the British Isles
Pusey House: Chapel
12:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Artemis Cooper, Sue Prideaux and Cal Revely-Calder talks to Miles Young
What Makes a Great Non-fiction Book? And Just Why it Matters. Celebrate with a Free Glass of Champagne
New College: MacGregor Matthews Room
12:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Fabio Barry
Amphion’s Lyre: How Poems Became Buildings
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
2:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Colin Jones
The Shortest History of France SOLD OUT
Brasenose College: Amersi Lecture Room
4:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Nick Trend
What Art can tell us about Love
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
6:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Snezana Lawrence, Charlotte Mullins and Nigel Warburton chaired by Heather McCallum
Sparking Curiosity: Big Ideas that Have Shaped World
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
6:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Frank Moya Pons talks to Maria Cristina Fumagalli
History and Culture of Dominican Republic
Brasenose College: Amersi Lecture Room
6:00pm
Fri 4
Friday, 4 April 2025
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Ashley Jackson
Oxford’s War 1939-1945
Weston Lecture Theatre
10:00am
Sat 5
Saturday, 5 April 2025
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Kelly Grovier
How Banksy Saved Art History
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room
12:00pm
Sat 5
Saturday, 5 April 2025
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Darrin McMahon introduced by Miles Young
Equality: The History of Elusive Idea
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
12:00pm
Sat 5
Saturday, 5 April 2025
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Saqib Qureshi
Being Muslim Today: Reclaiming the Faith from Orthodoxy and Islamophobia
Weston Lecture Theatre
12:00pm
Sat 5
Saturday, 5 April 2025
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Shannon Monaghan
To Die with Such Men: Frontline Stories from Ukraine’s International Legion
Weston Lecture Theatre
2:00pm
Sat 5
Saturday, 5 April 2025
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Louisa Treger Suzi Feay
The Paris Muse
Pusey House: Chapel
4:00pm
Sat 5
Saturday, 5 April 2025
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Ian Goldin
The Shortest History of Migration
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
6:00pm
Sat 5
Saturday, 5 April 2025
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Daniel Light and Mick Conefrey chaired by Stephen Law
Triumph and Tragedy: The Lure of the Mountains
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 1
6:00pm
Sat 5
Saturday, 5 April 2025
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Jan Brokken talks to Gwenan Edwards
Baltic Souls: Remarkable Life Stories from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Weston Lecture Theatre
10:00am
Sun 6
Sunday, 6 April 2025
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Ilan Pappé talks to Eugene Rogan
Conflict in the Middle East and the Pro-Israel Lobby
Sheldonian Theatre
12:00pm
Sun 6
Sunday, 6 April 2025
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Adam Zamoyski
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
2:00pm
Sun 6
Sunday, 6 April 2025
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Helen Fry and Kate Vigurs talk to Gwenan Edwards
Secret Women Spies: The Hidden Stories of Two World Wars
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre
4:00pm
Sun 6
Sunday, 6 April 2025
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Alec Ryrie talks to Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
Harris Manchester College: Chapel
6:00pm
Wed Jul 30
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
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