Each year, the Centre organizes a memorial lecture in honour of the late Raphael Samuel. Watch our event listings for the next upcoming lecture.
Past Lectures:
2017 Peter Burke, Two Diasporas: the place of exiles in the history of knowledge
2016 Alison Light, ‘Between Private and Public: Writing a Memoir about Raphael and Myself’
2015 Sally Alexander, ‘Social Democracy’s Super-Ego? The Politics of Motherhood in mid 20th century Britain
2014 Tariq Ali, ‘World Wars and Historical Memory’
2013 Anna Davin, ‘Galway to New Zealand: a Family Migration Story’
2012 Alun Howkins,’The Use and Abuse of English Commons, 1845-1900′
2011 Alessandro Portelli ‘Theatres of Memory, Memory as Theatre’
2010 Juliet Gardiner, ‘Searching for the Gleam: the quest for a new order in 1930s Britain’
2009 Jeffrey Weeks, ‘Making the Human Gesture: History, Sexuality and Social Justice’
2008 Jerry White, ‘Pain and Degradation in Georgian London: Life in the Marshalsea Prison’
2007 Annette Kuhn, ‘Going to the Pictures: Cinema-going in Twentieth Century Britain’
2006 Gareth Stedman Jones, ‘The Redemptive Powers of Violence? Carlyle, Dickens and Marx on the Legacy of the French Revolution’, published as ‘The Redemptive Power of Violence? Carlyle, Marx and Dickens’, History Workshop Journal, 65 (2008), pp. 1-22. Delivered at the Raphael Samuel Memorial event.
2005 Janet Nelson, ‘Organic Intellectuals in Dark Age Europe’
2004 Stuart Hall, ‘Black Diaspora Artists, Past and Present’, published as ‘Black Diaspora Artists in Britain: Three “Moments” in Post-war History’, History Workshop Journal, 61 (2006), pp. 1-24.
2003 Bill Schwarz, ‘Caribbean Stories and the Predicament of History’, published as ‘Not Even Past Yet’, History Workshop Journal, 57 (2004), pp. 101-15.
2002 Chris Bayley, ‘A Dying Colonial Metropolis: Yangoon (Rangoon), 1939-49’
2001 Roy Porter, ‘London and the English Enlightenment’
2000 Carlo Ginzburg. ‘Your Country Needs You’. A Case Study in Political Iconography
1999 Richard Sennett, ‘Welfare after the Welfare State’
1998 Judith Walkowitz, ‘Aliens and the City’