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The Raphael Samuel History Centre is an outreach and research centre supported by a two-way partnership between Birkbeck and Queen Mary.

Growing echoes in his head: through the prism of Stuart Hall's life

Seminar from Professor Belinda J Davis (Rutgers University) about the nature and timeline of political change

Yossef Rapoport, Becoming Arab: The formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East (Princeton UP, 2025)

Seminar from Professor Belinda J Davis (Rutgers University) about the nature and timeline of political change

Seminar from Professor Belinda J Davis (Rutgers University) about the nature and timeline of political change

Call for papers.

With Prof Stephen Legg, Prof Elisabeth Leake, Prof Matthew Hilton and Prof Erez Manela

With Prof Stephen Legg, Prof Elisabeth Leake, Prof Matthew Hilton and Prof Erez Manela

Talk about Christopher Hill's work

British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development

With Prof Stephen Legg, Prof Elisabeth Leake, Prof Matthew Hilton and Prof Erez Manela

Co-hosted with the Raphael Samuel History Centre and the QMUL Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire

Talk by James Crossley (University of Cambridge) followed by a wine reception

Talk about Christopher Hill's work

British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development

Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) delivers the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2026

Sophie Scott-Brown discusses the anarchic turn in the first British New Left

Celebration of HWJ's 100th edition

The Raphael Samuel History Centre is an outreach and research centre supported by a two-way partnership between Birkbeck and Queen Mary.

First in the Archaeological Collaboration after Conflict Spring 2026 seminar series

Professor Faisal Devji discusses his examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor