Tutor information
Simon Targett
Dr Simon Targett is a writer, historian, and award-winning journalist. A former Associate Editor of the Financial Times, he is a Departmental Tutor for Oxford Lifelong Learning, where he teaches Anglo-American and media history. He is co-author of New World, Inc.: How England’s Merchants Founded America and Launched the British Empire (2018). He has a PhD in history from Cambridge University.
Courses
As the US marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this series of five lectures focuses on the principal architects of the American revolution and their personal journey from British subjects to citizens of the United States.
As the US celebrates the Founding Fathers and the 250th anniversary of independence, this day event examines the “forgotten founders”: the English and English-backed adventurers who first searched for and settled what became North America.
Explore the remarkable contribution of successive generations of Oxford-educated explorers, merchants, intellectuals and prime ministers who were instrumental in the building and the breaking-up of British America.
The astonishing history and complex legacy of Captain James Cook. With three Pacific voyages in just eleven years, he helped shape the modern world through pioneering cartography, navigation and science.