I act regularly as a public speaker, offering schools lectures, after-dinner speeches and public history events. See below for current and recent engagements.
2017
24 January West Surrey Historical Association: 'Common Market or Bust! The 1975 Referendum'
6 March University College Oxford History Society: 'Brexit in Historical Perspective'
3 May Graveney School, Wandsworth: 'Margaret Thatcher: The Rise and Fall of the Iron Lady'
24 May Sarah Lawrence Programme: 'Another One??? The 2017 General Election'
7 June LMH History Society: 'Brexit in Historical Perspective'
2016
10 March A-Level Conference Company: 'Was there a Postwar Consensus?'
22 March LSE Commission: Expert witness hearing on the Future of Britain and Europe
24 May Institute of Commonwealth Studies: The 1975 Referendum
6 June Mile End Institute: The Great Sovereignty Debate (see blogpost)
10 June UK in a Changing Europe: The Referendums of 1975 and 2016
22 June Wake Up the Vote: Interview for Wake Up the Vote's #VoterMotor
24 June Mile End Institute: Post-Referendum Media Briefing
4 November University of Kent: Keynote Lecture: Britain and Europe from Invasion to (Dis)Integration
2015
26 February A-Level Conference Company: 'The Campaign for the Vote' and 'Politicians and the Suffrage Issue, 1906-1928'
2 March A-Level Conference Company: 'Was there a Postwar Consensus?' and 'Labour, 1955-1979'
5 May The Sarah Lawrence in Oxford Programme: 'Britain Votes! Predicting the UK General Election'
2014
17 January Kent College, Canterbury: 'Thatcherism in Historical Perspective'
28 January Queen Mary University of London: Discussion of Gareth Stedman Jones' Outcast London
5 March A-Level Conference Company: 'The Campaign for the Vote' and 'Politicians and the Suffrage Issue, 1906-1928'
10 March A-Level Conference Company: 'Was there a Postwar Consensus?' and 'Britain and Europe'
15 May St John's College History Society: 'The 1975 Britain and Europe Referendum'
14 October West Surrey Historical Association: '"Traitors to their Queen and Rebels to their God": the Chartist Challenge'
4 December Beckenham and Bromley Historical Association: "The Chartists and Their Enemies"
2013
21 February Oxford Research Seminar: 'Researching Thatcherism Roundtable'
4 March A-Level Conference Company: 'Was There a Post-War Consensus?' and 'Thatcherism'
11 March A-Level Conference Company: 'The Great Reform Act' and 'Sir Robert Peel'
14 March Kent College, Canterbury: 'Rethinking British Democracy'
21 March A-Level Conference Company: 'The Campaign for the Vote' and 'Politicians and the Suffrage Issue, 1906-1928'
3 April SCIO Visiting Programme: 'John Stuart Mill and the Mind of Victorian Britain'
5 April SCIO Visiting Programme: 'Northern Ireland and the Troubles'
7 May Balliol Left Caucus: 'Thatcherism: The Challenge to the Left'
2 July British Studies at Oxford: 'The Reform Acts and Democratization'
6 July Somerville College, Oxford: 'Margaret Thatcher's Britain: What Do Historians Say?'
17 August SCIO Visiting Programme: 'Votes for Women - and Chastity for Men'
25 November Queen Mary University History Journal: "Democracy in Britain: The History of an Idea"
2012
16 January Oxford Historical Association: 'Gladstone, Disraeli and Empire'
26 January German Historical Institute: 'Thatcherism and the Seventies'
22 February A-Level Conference Company: 'Women's Suffrage'
27 February A-Level Conference Company: 'The New Liberal Reforms'
13 March A-Level Conference Company: 'Thatcherism'
16 March FRIAS, Freiburg: 'The Crisis of Parliaments: Tory Rebels and the Threat of Civil War in Britain, 1910-14'
20 March A-Level Conference Company: 'The Impact of the Great Reform Act'2 April SCIO Visiting Programme: 'John Stuart Mill and the Mind of Victorian Britain'
8 May The Ashmole Society: 'When Tories go to War: the Ulster Crisis, 1912-14'
17 May St John's History Society: 'Maggie and Me: A Historic Relationship'
24 Sept SCIO Visiting Programme: 'Votes for Women - and Chastity for Men!'
25 Sept SCIO Visiting Programme: 'Thatcher and Thatcherism'
26 November St Paul's School History Society: 'When Tories go to War: the Ulster Crisis, 1912-14'
2011
4 March A-Level Conference Company: 'The Great Reform Act' AND 'Electoral Reform, 1833-85'
5 April SCIO Visiting Programme: 'John Stuart Mill and the Mind of Victorian Britain'
4 July Emory Visiting Programme: 'Oxford and its History'
11 July Georgia Visiting Programme: 'The Legacy of Thatcherism in British Politics'
26 September SCIO Visiting Programme: 'Votes for Women - and Chastity for Men!'
24 November LMH History Society: 'Margaret Thatcher: Warrior, Icon - Historian?'