Recent Lectures
The following lectures were given by members of CIH on undergraduate courses at the University of Sussex. They are presented here for reference purposes.
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Ideas in History
Richard Whatmore - 'Aristotle and Athens'
Richard Whatmore - 'Roman and Christian Virtue'
Richard Whatmore - 'Machiavelli and amoral politics'
Richard Whatmore - 'John Milton and Rebellion'
Richard Whatmore - 'Constant on Liberty of the Ancients and Moderns'
Richard Whatmore - 'Liberty and the French Revolution'
Richard Whatmore - 'The Passions and Interests of David Hume'
Early Modern World
Richard Whatmore - 'The Colombian Exchange'
Richard Whatmore - 'The Fall of Constantinople'
Richard Whatmore - 'The Renaissance'
Richard Whatmore - 'The Consequences of the Westphalian Peace'
Richard Whatmore - 'The Dutch Republic'
Richard Whatmore - 'Republican revolution in America and Geneva'
Richard Whatmore - 'Republic of Letters to the Public Sphere'
Richard Whatmore - 'Radical Enlightenment'
Richard Whatmore - 'Enlightenment Contested and Democratic'
The Making of the Modern World
Richard Whatmore - 'The American Revolution'
Richard Whatmore - 'The French Revolution'
Richard Whatmore - 'Empire after the Napoleonic Wars'
Richard Whatmore - 'Industrial Revolution 1: Free trade, industry and the machinery question'
Richard Whatmore - 'Industrial Revolution 2: Gradgrind and Jerusalem'
Richard Whatmore - 'Reform and the Reform Act 1832'
Richard Whatmore - '1848 Revolutions'
Richard Whatmore - 'Empire at the end of Enlightenment'
