“The Case for Gas”: National Energy Transition in Postwar Britain
Free talk by Dr Kathy Davies Until the late 1960s, Britain powered its homes, industries, and empire with coal. Coal consumption reached its peak in the postwar period, but by […]
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Sixties Room Churchill College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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‘De Gaulle is France. Not a bastard.’ Churchill in the shadow of de Gaulle.
Sixties Room Churchill College, Cambridge, United KingdomFree lecture by Richard Vinen, Professor of History at King’s College London. British history is often seen as being, as David Cannadine once put it, ‘In Churchill’s Shadow.’ It is, […]
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Roskill Lecture 2026: Dame Karen Pierce on ‘Do we still need the special relationship?’
Churchill College, Wolfson Foyer Storey's Way, CambridgeThe 2026 Roskill Lecture, titled ‘Do we still need the special relationship?’, will be delivered by Dame Karen Pierce DCMG. In this twenty-first Roskill Memorial Lecture, Dame Karen will be […]