News and Events

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Upcoming Events

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Event Series

Inaugural Lectures

Professor Matthew J. Smith: 'A Troubled Freedom: Power & Caribbean Memory of Slavery', March 4 2022
Professor John Sabapathy: 'Goodbye Cockaigne! Working, eating, & laughing in the Anthropocene, 1250-2023', 29 November 2023
Professor Benedetta Rossi: 'Africa in the Global History of Slavery and Abolition, 1800-2023', 13 March 2024
Professor Ali Coşkun Tunçer: '"Swallow flying south": capital, democracy, and the making of the Global South', 29 October 2024

Upcoming Inaugurals

Professor Rebecca Jennings: '‘I simply rejected femaleness’: Diana Chapman’s narratives of gendered and sexual selfhood in mid-twentieth-century Britain', 11 March 2025

Neale Lectures

The annual UCL History Neale Lecture series started in 1970 when Dame Veronica Wedgwood gave her talk titled 'Oliver Cromwell and the Elizabethan Inheritance'. Read about our most recent Neale Lectures below and watch our recordings on YouTube.

2023 David Mattingly: 'Decolonising ancient empire: Roman imperialism, Britain and Africa'
2022 Craig Muldrew: 'Capitalism: a concept too big to fail?'
2021 Kennetta Hammond Perry: 'Sensory Encounters With the Archive of David Oluwale'
2020 (Cancelled due to Covid)
2019 Jörg Peltzer: 'English or European? How to make an earl in fourteenth-century England'
2018 Mark Knights: 'Corruption and the Evolution of Office: Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850'
2017 Jon Lawrence: 'The culture-wars of class in post-war Britain'

Alumni Roundtables

We regularly invite our alumni community to keep in touch with us. One way we do this is through our alumni roundtable events; the latest alumni events can be found below and rewatched on YouTube.

2024 Antonio Sennis, Benet Salway, Rebecca Jennings: 'Social Media in History'
2023 Hans van Wees, Patrick Lantschner, Heather Jones: 'Populism and History'
2022 Vivienne Lo, Elaine Leong, John Sabapathy: 'Disease and History'

Aaron Graham Lecture in Economic and Social History

The Aaron Graham Lecture in Economic and Social History was established in 2024 to honour the memory of Dr Aaron Graham (1984 -2003) and celebrate his outstanding contributions to the field. Dr Graham was a dedicated member of the Economic History Society (EHS), a regular contributor to its annual conferences, and a valued member of the EHS Awards and Prizes Committee at the time of his passing. He was also a prominent figure in the IHR Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World seminar series. The Aaron Graham Lecture is supported by UCL History, the Economic History Society, and public donations. Contributions to the lecture fund can be made here.

2025: Professor Pat Hudson, 'Caribbean Investment and the Financialisation of the British Economy in the eighteenth century'
2024: Professor Julian Hoppit, 'Revisiting the Unions of 1707 and 1801'