Past Events
Production is everywhere and nowhere: what are industrial revolutions supposed to be?, Forschungskolloquium zur Technikgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin, 9 December 2024
L’État de la transformation verte et la crise de la démocratie, Le Grand Continent Summit, Val d’Aosta, 5 December 2024, video here
Who wants Peace prepares for War? Rencontres Economiques, Aix-en-Provence, July 2024, video here
Technology and Nation: Thinking with the History of Small States, Teknik och nation Teknik- och vetenskapshistoriska dagar 2024, 12 June 2024. video here
New Narratives for new technologies. Turin Biennale Tecnologico, April 21st 2024, video
United Nations Association, Harpenden, 9th March 2024
The past in the present: Reflections on coal mining and the miners’ strike 1984-85, Cardiff, 2 March 2024
Neoliberalism and Capitalism as Keywords, Yale University, 23-25th February, 2024
How Labour Governs, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 27th January 2024
The Surprising Story of the British Economy (with Duncan Weldon) Chalke Valley History Festival, 27 June 2023, audio to come
Empire, Nation and the British State (with Kojo Koram) Culture, Power and Politics Open Seminar, 21st June 2023 Audio here
What is and isn’t exceptional about the United Kingdom: some reflections on Twentieth Century Britain. Bristol Historical Association Wednesday 9th November 2022. 7.30 pm. Details
The Orwell Festival: David Wengrow in Discussion with David Edgerton, Foyle’s Bookshop, 11 July 2022
Thoughts on industrial strategy, at the Progressive Economics 2022, Greenwich, June 2022 (Progressive Economy Forum) Audio here (track 10)
Contribution to conference on employment in a post Covid UK economy, History & Policy Trade Union Forum, 27 October 2021
‘Cumulation not Transition? Some Thoughts on the Material History of the Twentieth Century’, Conference on the Environment and infrastructure from the early modern period to the present, Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico, 23 September 2021
RAF Museum Conference: New Thinking in Air Power: 16 September - 17 September 2021
‘The Opportunities and Dangers of a New National Political Economy’, Conference on Foundational Renewal: Transforming essential reliance systems in the wake of COVID-19, 8th September 2021 - VIDEO (start at 23m)
U3A Islington, ‘The Rise and Fall of the British Nation’, 10 June 2021
‘The Rise and Fall of the British Nation’, Ealing Branch, Historical Association, Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT, at 7.30pm, 9 March 2021.
‘The United Kingdom’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting’, LSE Department of Economic History, 21st January 2021
The Ivory Tower and other stories about invention, Smashing the Silos Series: 1 How University Funding Structures Shape Narrow Disciplines, & How To Challenge Them, Oxford Union Society, 30 January 2021
Shock and Awe: comparing Covid-19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Royal Aeronautical Society, Corporate Briefing, 18 January 2021
‘The United Kingdom’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting’, Cambridge Economic and Social History Seminar, November 2020.
CANCELLED ‘How British Historians Nationalised the British Experience of the SWW 1945-2000’, Private Wars: Legitimacy, Finance and the Social Contract: A conference on the public/private boundary in warfare, Sciences-Po Reims 20-21 March 2020 CANCELLED
‘Rise and Fall of the British Nation’ StonyWords, Milton Keynes: 29 January 2020 The Library, 5-7 Church Street, Stony Stratford, MK11 1BD at 7.00 pm.
‘Science, Technology and the Cold War’, School of Architecture, Catholic University of Chile, 17th December 2019
‘Imitación o Innovación: ¿cómo se deben entender las relaciones ciencia-tecnología-sociedad?’, 13 de diciembre, Laboratorio de Historia de la Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, Chile.
‘The Culture and Value of Maintenance in the UK’, Geospatial Insights SIG event, Innovate UK, Knowledge Transfer Network, Birmingham 21st November.
I will be discussing with David Reynolds his new book, Island Stories at Daunt’s bookshop, Marylebone 20th November 2019 7.00 pm
‘Brexit and British History’, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway, 1st November 2019
London Socialist History seminar. Monday October 28, 5.00pm Some Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the British Nation, Room S 8.08, 8th Floor, Strand Building, King’s College
Keele World Affairs, 17 October 2019
Wilfried Martens Centre, Brussels, 26 June 2019
Owl Bookshop, Kentish Town, London NW5, 17 June 2019
STS Program Harvard, Science and Democracy Lecture, ‘Imitation, Invasion and Innovation’ 16 April 2019
Historical Association, West Surrey Branch, Guildford, 26th February 2019
Guardian Masterclass - A weekend history degree with King's College London - Bush House 9/10th March 2019
St John's College Politics Society, Southsea, 22 March 2019
Historical Association, North London Branch, Enfield, 13th November 2018
Chiswick and West London Fabian Society alongside Brentford and Isleworth Labour Party, 22 November 2018 19:45 St Michael And All Angels Church, Bath Road, London
Festival of Maintenance, London, October 2018
Emden Lecture, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 16th October 2018, 5.30pm (See Interviews for video)
Edinburgh International Book Festival, 15th August 2018
Buxton International Festival, 11th July 2018 at 14:00
‘The social function of history: policy, history and twentieth-century science’, Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture, Royal Society, 20th April 2009. VIDEO