Themes in World History
Co-ordinators: Chris Alcock and Chris Shearin
Meetings: Monthly, 1st Monday afternoon starting in November
We aim to study and discuss a range of themes which impact across states and regions and potentially involve the whole planet. Themes could be from any period of history but are more likely to fall into the modern era.
Possible subjects include globalisation, imperialism (European or otherwise), nationalism (culturally and in terms of the nation state), historic pandemics, the Cold War, environmentally-driven conflicts, feminism, global migrations, and comparative systems of government (e.g. democracy versus authoritarianism).
Update - 10 January
We have decided to postpone the next meeting of the group until 7th March 2022. We will post details of the meeting location in due course, and apologise to any members who were thinking about attending the meeting in February.