Armistice Public Lecture

The Armistice Day Public Lecture Series Organised By The Department Of Languages And Cultures Presents PROFESSOR VERNON BOGDANOR, CBE, FBA, on `Should Britain Have Gone To War In 1914?

This year’s lecture is sponsored by the Vice-Chancellor’s Endowment Fund
Vernon Bogdanor CBE, FBA is a research professor at the Centre for British Politics and Government, at King’s College, London.
He was formerly Professor of Government at Oxford University, and Senior Tutor and Vice-Principal at Brasenose College.
He has written widely on government and politics, including books The People and the Party System, Monarchy and the Constitution, and Power and the People: A Guide to Constitutional Reform. Most recently, he has edited a book on The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century and written on The New British Constitution. He has been an adviser to government and parliamentary bodies on many occasions, and in 1998 was awarded the CBE for services to constitutional history. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

After the lecture, there will be a reception and an opportunity to purchase signed copies of Professor Bogdanor’s new book, on which the lecture is based, The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power Before the First World War (2022).
The book examines the period 1895-1914. This period has often been seen as one of decadence, of the strange death of liberal Britain. In contrast, Vernon Bogdanor believes that the robustness of Britain’s parliamentary and political institutions and her liberal political culture were powerful enough to carry her through one of the most challenging periods of her history, and so make possible the remarkable survival of liberal Britain.

Entrance free but booking is required.