2025

Events which have already taken place in the 2025-26 academic year.

Cover image of the book beside a black and white portrait of Professor Delaney.

Professor Enda Delaney - Professor of Modern History - will be talking about his new book.

A black and white photograph showing a man looking over a cemetery of white crosses in sand

The Official Historian of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), Dr George Hay, will be discussing the findings of the CWGC's second report from their non-commemoration programme, this time focusing on the Second World War.

A group of women in traditional dresses dance in a circle around a bonfire at dusk, with a glowing moon overhead and village festivities in the background.

Professor Lucy Grig - Professor of the History of Late Antiquity - will give her inaugural lecture on 'A slow history of Late Antiquity'.

A map of James Fort in 1783

The 2025 Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery will be given by Professor Christopher Brown on 'The Atlantic Slave Trade and the American Revolution'.

Professor Graziosi wears glasses and a blue shirt and stands beside a window, her face illuminated by natural ight.

The School looks forward to welcoming the 2025 Leventis Professor, Barbara Graziosi, who will be joining the Classics Subject Area this semester from Princeton University.

Map of Europe

This year's Denys Hays Lecture will be given by Professor Philippe Buc.

A group of young soldiers in berets stand beside a car

'How I solved a wartime murder'. Professor Wendy Ugolini, Professor of Second World War Studies, examines identity during war.

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This conference will explore the ways in which these historians were read and copied in the Carolingian period and the role of Roman historical texts and scholarship in Carolingian intellectual life, bringing together specialists in ancient history and textual editing with scholars of early medieval Europe.

Anatomy Museum

A conversation on the histories, legacies, and repatriation of Edinburgh’s African skull collections. Part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Curious Festival.