Department Events

Find UCL History recent news and scroll down to see our open events in the 2023/24 academic year.

Below you can find the calendar which details our upcoming departmental events that you may wish to attend. Please note that this is a provisional schedule and is subject to change.

Neale Lecture 2023: David Mattingly, Ancient Historian, University of Leicester

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'Decolonising ancient empire: Roman imperialism, Britain and Africa'
Thursday 23 November 2023, 18:00-21:00
Lecture: Gustave Tuck | Reception: Haldane Room
Book your free place for the 2023 Neale Lecture (virtual link will be added shortly).

Inaugural Lecture: Professor John Sabapathy
Wednesday 29 November 2023, 18:30-21:00
Lecture: Gustave Tuck | Reception: Haldane Room
In person and online booking link will be added shortly.

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Valentina Arena
Tuesday 13 February 2023, 18:00-21:00
TBC.

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Benedetta Rossi
Wednesday 14 March 2023, 18:00-21:00
TBC.

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Ali Coşkun Tunçer
Thursday 25 April 2023, 18:00-21:00
TBC.

Event Series

Neale Lecture

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.

2023 Hans van Wees, Patrick Lantschner, Heather Jones: 'Populism and History'
2022 Vivienne Lo, Elaine Leong, John Sabapathy: 'Disease and History'

Alumni Roundtable Event: 'Disease and History' on 12 May 2022. From left to right: John Sabapathy, Vivienne Lo, Elaine Leong.

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