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Cyberattacks, sabotage, disinformation, and proxy forces are reshaping conflict below the threshold of war. This six-part lecture series explores the history, tools, and strategic logic of grey-zone warfare – and how democracies can deter and respond.
The Bayeux Tapestry is a unique medieval artefact with an extraordinary history. It has survived for almost a thousand years despite misuse, fire, revolution, exploitation and attempted theft. This lecture will trace its history.
Would you like to learn how to read medieval handwriting in original documents? Join us for this weekend event, studying the basics of the most common scripts, covering the history of handwriting and taking practical examples from popular record types.
For those who have some research experience and an understanding of basic statistical principles, and who wish to develop their statistical expertise.
This lecture explores Thatcher’s electoral success, economic transformation, and confrontations with organised labour, highlighting how her leadership secured repeated victories before divisions over Europe led to her removal.
Learn how to plan and create effective content for your brand, navigate AI’s impact on marketing, and use meaningful metrics, SMART objectives and KPIs to turn campaigns into measurable, continuously improving results.
Crimea has always been too tempting a trophy to resist. It carries the scars of successive civilisations that have claimed, shaped, and reshaped it. To this day, it remains a prize fought over by competing peoples and ideologies.
This lecture series will evaluate the most controversial decisions in international relations since the end of the Cold War. It focuses on the balance of decision making between diplomacy and military conflict.
This lecture will reassess Bush’s path to the Gulf War, from early hesitation and pressure for diplomacy to a hardened stance shaped by domestic and strategic factors, culminating in Desert Storm and the liberation of Kuwait.
Life writing – whether memoir, biography, literary non-fiction, eye-witness accounts, blogs (the list goes on) – can be very powerful when told with brevity. Short-form writing is an end in itself; it also helps us focus on our writerly craft.
Join us in Oxford for this walking tour and examine the city's remarkable collection of grotesques and gargoyles. How has a medieval tradition found popularity in the present? What codes are hidden in the stones? Bring binoculars for close-up views!
This lecture explores Major’s 1992 election victory and political skill, set against the impact of Black Wednesday and deep party divisions over Europe, which ultimately led to his government’s defeat in 1997.
