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  • Bob Edwards centenary: His life, work and legacy

    Wolfson Lecture Theatre Churchill College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    Join us for this panel session on Robert Edwards’ Life and Legacy chaired by Roger Highfield (Director of the Science Museum Group). The panel will feature Emma Barnett (British Broadcaster and Journalist with a young IVF child), Fiona Bennett (former Executive Editor of Reproductive BioMedicine Online journal which Bob started), Louise Brown (the first IVF baby), Professor Sir Richard Gardner (Bob’s PhD student and […]

  • Black and white photo of Churchill shaking hands with Charles de Gaulle outside 10 Downing Street, 1960

    ‘De Gaulle is France. Not a bastard.’  Churchill in the shadow of de Gaulle.

    Sixties Room Churchill College, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Free 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, therefore, revealing to put Churchill alongside de Gaulle because de Gaulle is the one politician in a democratic country to have enjoyed a stature comparable […]

  • Collage of images relating to the Anglo-Irish Agreement

    The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in historical perspective

    Churchill College Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS, United Kingdom

    On 15 November 1985 the governments of the United Kingdom and of Ireland signed an Agreement – with the status of an international treaty – which stipulated that Dublin would […]

  • Photograph of Churchill giving the Fulton speech

    Geopolitical Risk: Learning from the Past – Shaping the Future. 

    Møller Institute Storey's Way, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    A Churchill Archives Conference  “Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and the world, but no one paid any attention.”  In Fulton, Missouri […]