Speakers

Dr Chris Fletcher was educated at Cambridge and Oxford, taking his D.Phil. in 2003. He has published articles using literary texts to illuminate historical problems in Past and Present and the Journal of Medieval History. His first book, 'Richard II: Manhood, youth and politics' will be coming out with Oxford University Press in 2008.

 

John Lonsdale was introduced to Kenya as a schoolboy in the 1950s and then did his National Service in the King's African Rifles. His first teaching post was at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the 1960s.   He was Director Studies in History at Trinity College for 30 years and Tutor for ten and retired in 2004 as Professor of Modern African History.

 

Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he is also Perne Librarian and Tutor for Undergraduate Admissions. Since 1990, he has been a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is a historian of early modern thought and intellectual culture. His publications on Isaac Newton include Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at Work (Cambridge 2001).

 

William O'Reilly is University Lecturer in early modern History at the University of Cambridge and is Associate Director of the Centre for History and Economics. Having studied at the universities of Oxford, Hamburg and Philadelphia, his work concentrates on issues of population movement - migration, colonisation and imperialism - within Europe and European overseas possession in the period post-1500. A book on human trafficking, entitled 'Selling Souls', is currently in press and William's current research project is a study of race in Europe.

Robin Osborne has been Professor of Ancient History in Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College since 2001, haveing previously been Professor of Ancient History and Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College Oxford. He works across a broad range of ancient Greek history, art history, and archaeology. His books include Greek History (Routledge, 2004), Greece in the Making 1200-479 (Routledge, 1996), and Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford University Press, 1998).

John Pollard is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at Anglia Ruskin University and Fellow in History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. His research and teaching interests lie in the fields of the Italian Catholic movement, Italian Fascism, present-day neo-fascism/Nazism and the history of the modern papcy (especially the diplomatic and financial aspects).

 

David Reynolds (Christ's College) is Professor of International History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of the British Academy.  He is the author or editor of ten books including In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (2004), which was awarded the Wolfson prize.  His latest book entitled Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the 20th Century will be published by Penguin in September.

Martin Ruehl is a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. His research focuses on the role of philosophy and historiography in the re-shaping of right-wing political thought during the Second Empire and the Weimar Republic. He has published books and articles on Nietzsche, Burckhardt, Thomas Mann and the George Circle.

 

Peter Sarris read Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford before being elected to a Prize Fellowship at All Souls. He is currently University Lecturer in Medieval History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His publications include Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian (Cambridge, 2006)

 

David L Smith was born in 1963 and educated at Eastbourne College and at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He has been a Fellow of Selwyn since 1988, where he is currently Director of Studies in History and Tutor for Graduate Students, and he is also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Cambridge History Faculty. He has won the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize and Cambridge University’s Thirlwall Prize for Historical Research. His publications include Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c. 1640-1649 (1994), A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707, The Double Crown (1998), and The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689 (1999).

 

Deborah Thom is a fellow and tutor at Robinson College where she has been since 1987 as director of studies in both History and Social and Political Sciences. She also lectures in History and philosophy of science. Her research is currently on the history of corporal punishment and before that she has researched and published on the history of intelligence testing, child guidance and maladjustment, feminism, women's employment, trade unions and the First World War.

 

Tessa Webber completed a BA and DPhil in History at Oxford University, and held a junior research fellowship at Magdalen College. After nine years as a lecturer in the History Department at the University of Southampton, she took up a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge and is currently University Senior Lecturer in Palaeography and Codicology in the Faculty of History. She has published books on the post-Conquest community and manuscripts of Salisbury Cathedral (1992) and on the medieval libraries of the Augustinian canons (1997), and is co-editor of Volume One of the Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland (2006).