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Politics and diplomacy

Habitual Petitioners: John and Jane Danyell

Posted on 19 February 2024 by Keir Waddington

In this blog post, Lloyd Bowen, Reader in Early Modern and Welsh History, writes about an inveterate Elizabethan petitioner who was incarcerated for forging the earl of Essex’s correspondence. In […]

An empire for the Enlightenment: Britain, Quebec, and the American Revolution

An empire for the Enlightenment: Britain, Quebec, and the American Revolution

Posted on 11 December 2023 by Keir Waddington

As Ashley Walsh explains in this blog post, it is a counter-intuitive feature of the Enlightenment that it could be intolerant. We tend to associate the Enlightenment with religious toleration […]

Power failures, sovereignty and environmental justice in Lebanon

Posted on 13 November 2023 by Keir Waddington

In his post, Owain Lawson explains As I work towards finishing my first book—Power Failures: Development, Sovereignty, and Environmental Justice in Lebanon—I have become preoccupied with the question of whether […]

Václav Havel dialogues 2023

Posted on 25 September 2023 by Keir Waddington

The first Central and East European event for the new academic year is coming up on 10 October 2023. The event is organised by the Czech Embassy in London and the Centre […]

The Treaty of London (1373) and the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance

Posted on 6 September 2023 by Bronach Kane

16 June 2023 marked the 650th anniversary of the conclusion of the Treaty of London, one of the four principal treaties that mark the formation of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance – […]