All episodes
Alison Bashford (Sydney) - “Depopulation and Repopulation: Settler Colonialism and Political Economy in the Early 19th Century”
Niall O’Flaherty (KCL) - "Malthus and the Global Turn"
Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) - “Holding the Monarch to Account: Frederick the Great’s Writings in the Public Sphere”
Debating Enlightenment
Ramin Jahanbegloo - "The Idea of Persia: A Philosophical Enquiry" (Book launch)
Robert Frost (Aberdeen) - "Drawing in the Reins of Government: Justus Lipsius and Republican Monarchy in Poland-Lithuania"
Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature
Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature
Beauty and the Footnote: Universities and the Study of Literature
Sophie Scott-Brown (University of St Andrews; Remarque Institute, New York) - "British Activist-Intellectuals and the Unexpected Revival of Radical Democracy in the (Long) 1950s"
Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen) - "Creating an Ancien Regime: The Union of 1800 as a Counter Revolutionary Act"
Tom Pye (UCL) - "The tailzie and the politics of the feudal law in eighteenth-century Britain"
Norman Vance - "Individualism and its Discontents: Hobbes to Hayek and Beyond"
Christopher de Bellaigue - "Suleyman the Magnificent and the 16th-century race for empire"
Ariane Fichtl - “Overcoming the biopolitical dynamic of enslavement to achieve Immediate Emancipation”
Tim Stuart-Buttle - "Behind the Curtain: Hobbes and the politics of recognition"
Richard Whatmore - "The End of Enlightenment (book launch)"
Jesse Norman - "Ambition, revenge, truth, fiction - The Winding Stair"
Vassilios Paipais - "Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology"
Adam Sisman - "The Perils of Biography"
Alan Kahan - "Three Pillars and Four Fears: A History of Liberalisms
James Harris - “Hobbes and Rousseau on ‘the act by which a people is a people’”
Brian Young - "Utilitarianism and the universities in Victorian England: the brothers Grote in nineteenth-century thought"
Sarah Mortimer - "Virtue beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe"
Ariane Fichtl - "Bound with the enslaved: the role of women in the formation of the political discourse of Immediate Abolitionism and its egalitarian framework"
Martine van Ittersum - "The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius: A Case Study in the Micro-Sociologies of Archives"
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Maria Rosa Antognazza
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Jamie Gianoutsos
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Carole Levin
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians – Tae-Yeoun Keum
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Jacqueline Broad
Interviews with Leading Intellectual Historians - Eileen M. Hunt
Emma McLeod - "John Bruce, precedent, and the 'mind of government' in the English and Scottish state trials of 1793-94"
Rosa Antognazza - Leibniz as Historian
Karie Schultz - Holy war advocates or secular political theorists? The case of the Scottish Covenanters, 1638-1646
Craig Smith - Adam Smith and the Limits of Philosophy
Jesse Norman - Uses and abuses of the Ancient Constitution
Ryan Hanley - Commerce before Capitalism: Fénelon, Vauban, and Boisguilbert
John Robertson - The Refutation of Natural Law by Sacred History in Giambattista Vico's New Science
Giulia Delogu - The Emporium of Words: Free Ports and Port Cities as Laboratories of Modernity (16th-19th centuries)
Thomas Maissen - Britannia and her sisters in the 16th and 17th centuries: Political Representation and Iconography
Ian MacLean - Old wine in new bottles? Hippocrates, the classical tradition and the Early Enlightenment
David Weinstein - Green's Hume
Lucia Rubinelli - Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Weimar Germany
James Poskett - Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920
Emma Hunter - Africa and the Global History of Liberalism
Silvia Sebastiani - The Boundaries of Humanity in the Enlightenment: Orangutans, Slaves and Global Markets.
Richard Whatmore - The End of Enlightenment: A synopsis of the 2019 Carlyle Lectures
Iain McDaniel - Writing the Intellectual History of Caesarism in the era of the Franco-Prussian War
Nathan Alexander - The Meanings of "Racism": Towards a history of the concept
Robin Douglass - The Moral Psychology of the Social Contract
Alex Douglas - Spinoza and Religion
Paul Wood - The Rise and Fall of the Common Sense 'School' of Philosophy
Blair Worden - Ben Jonson and Liberty
Riccardo Bavaj - The Spatiality of Ideas: Ernst Fraenkel, Richard Löwenthal, and the "Westernisation" of Political Thought
Nicholas Mithen - Codifying Good Taste: Historical Scholarship and Epistemic Virtue in Early 18th Century Italy
Teresa Bejan - Equality and hierarchy in the thought of Mary Astell
Susan James - Putting One's knowledge to work: Spinoza on 'fortitudo'
David Armitage - The Dark Side of Enlightened Cosmopolitanism: Civilisation and Civil War
Richard Whatmore - Scotland, Europe and the End of Enlightenment
Janet Coleman - Reflections on the Self Itself: in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and what happened next?
Lynette Mitchell - Monarchs in democracy
Gareth Stedman Jones - Karl Marx and the Emergence of Social Democracy
Susan Manly - Maria Edgeworth as political thinker: government, rebellion and punishment
Sophie Page - Cosmology and Ritual Magic in the Late Middle Ages
Caroline Humfress - Natural law and casuistic reasoning in Roman jurisprudence
Phil Connell - Wordsworth’s “Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty” (1802-3) and the British Revolutionary Past
Rory Cox - Just War Doctrine in Ancient Egypt
David D’Avray - How to do intellectual history
Tom Jones - George Berkeley in Livorno: Missionary Anglicanism and Commerce
Katrina Forrester - The Origins of Contemporary Liberal Theory Revisited
Michael Sonenscher - Hobbes, Rousseau and Democratic Politics
Steve Rigby - Marxism and the Middle Ages
Kleanthis Mantzouranis - Aristotle on the Ethics of Wealth
Milos Vec - The 'Family of Nations': A rhetorical figure and its ideology
Aaron Garrett - Moral Knowledge and the Decline of the Grotian Programme
Anthony Black - How to Plan a Global History of Political Thought
Eric Nelson - Barons' Wars, under other names: Magna Carta, Royalism, and the American Founding
Rachel Hammersley - The Republican Theorist as Royal Servant: James Harrington's Civil War
Quentin Skinner - A genealogy of liberty
Laszlo Kontler - The Enlightenment Narrative in the Age of Liberal Reform: William Robertson in Hungary
Mark Elliott - The contribution of the history of exegesis to the history of ideas
Béla Kapossy - Liberty before neo-Roman republicanism: Haller’s restoration of political science
Dimitris Kastritsis - The Alexander Romance and the Birth of the Ottoman Empire
Christian Maurer - The Forgotten Range of Defences of Sociability: Hutcheson and Campbell on Hobbes
Jane Judge - Ce que nous allons devenir. Belgian national identity in eighteenth-century revolution
John Dunn - Why We Need a Global History of Political Thought
Ian Hunter - The History of Dialectical History: The Case of International Law
David Allan - Reading and Remembering: Intellectual History and the Commonplace Book in the Long Eighteenth Century
Nick Phillipson - Hume, Smith and the Science of Man in Scotland
Keith Tribe - Utilitarianism, the Moral Sciences, and Political Economy: Mill-Grote-Sidgwick
Philip Schofield - Jeremy Bentham on Truth and Utility
James Harris - A New Approach to the Intellectual Biography of David Hume
Michael Bentley - Intellectual History and the Study of Historiography
Jacqueline Rose - The Problem of Political Counsel in Early Modern England
John Henry - The Only Game in Town? Why did Early Modern Reformers of Natural Philosophy turn almost exclusively to the Occult to replace Scholasticism?
Sarah Hutton - Intellectual History and Women
David Luscombe - Otto of Freising and Historical Knowledge
Stewart J. Brown - China and the European Enlightenment
Norman Vance - Sporting St Patrick's Breastplate: war and peace in Irish Intellectual History