By Michael Hughes, Professor of Russian and International History, Lancaster University
Michael Hughes has published widely on nineteenth-century Russian History and on Anglo-Russian relations in the twentieth Century. He is currently completing a biography of Stephen Graham, who helped to shape British attitudes towards Russia during the years before 1917, and is also involved in the project Russia’s ‘Great War and Revolution, 1914-22: The Centennial Reappraisal’. His lecture this evening focuses on the current Russian President Vladimir Putin and his place in the long trajectory...
By Dr Jameson Tucker, lecturer in history, Plymouth University
From psalters and martyrologies to the international trade in hats, Dr Jameson Tucker will discuss the ways in which exile and persecution shaped a Huguenot identity, from their earliest days in France and Geneva, to the refugees who came to Germany, the Netherlands, and England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
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