Institute of Historical Research
Venue: Low Countries Room, IHR
Time: Tuesday, 6.00pm

Autumn Term 2010

12 October  Grant Hibberd (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
The Sealand Affair: The last great adventure of the 20th century? 
 
26 October  Dr Asahiko Hanzawa (LSE/Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo)
An Invisible Surrender: The United Nations and the End of the British Empire, 1956-1963 
 
9 November  Professor Rana Mitter (Oxford)
Why Wartime Matters: How World War II is shaping Chinese ideas of citizenship & community

The Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Lecture

Please note that this event will be held at 5.30p.m. in The Great Hall, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London. Those wishing to attend should RSVP to Jayne.Peake@kcl.ac.uk
 
16 November  Dr Alex Watson (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
'Unheard of Brutality': Russian Atrocities against Civilians in East Prussia, 1914-15 
 
23 November  Dr Charles Gallagher (Boston College, USA)
An Uneasy Patriotism: US Government Surveillance of Roman Catholics prior to World War II 
 
7 December  Dr Paul Maddrell (Aberystwyth)
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service and the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1961: What the Stasi's Records Show about SIS and the GDR