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Wiles Lectures 2012

The Wiles lectures in 2012 will be given by Professor Peter Hennessy. 

Peter Hennessy FBA is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He was appointed a cross-bench member of the House of Lords in 2010.

His four-lecture series will be  on 'History, Country, Autobiography:  Writing about one's own times' and will be held from Wednesday 16 May to Saturday 19 May 2012.

 

Lecture 1. 'Staying behind and catching up: The contemporary historian's craft' (Wednesday 16 May at 5pm, in Peter Froggat Centre, G01/007)

Lecture 2. 'A very peculiar practice: Watching Prime Ministers' (Thursday 17 May at 5pm, at 5pm, in Peter Froggat Centre, G01/007)

Lecture 3. 'Children of the Uranium Age: The shadow of the bomb' (Friday 18 May at 5pm, in Peter Froggat Centre, G01/007)

Lecture 4. 'A view from a Hogwartian window: The question of the Lords' (Saturday 19 May at 11am, in the Larmour Lecture Theatre (Physics))