The University hosts the Vice Chancellors Annual Medieval Lecture and in 2015 is hosting a series of lectures to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
Vice Chancellor’s Annual Medieval Lecture
- 17th March 2017 – Professor Chris Wickham (University of Oxford), more info here
- 28th March 2016 – Professor John Arnold (University of Cambridge)
- 24th March 2015: Professor Nicholas Vincent (University of East Anglia), ‘Who wrote Magna Carta?’
- 27th March 2014: Professor Simon Barton (University of Exeter), ‘Damsels in Distress: Interfaith Sex and Power Politics in Medieval Iberia’
- 21st March 2013: Professor Anne Curry (University of Southampton), ‘(Not) Born to be King: Henry V before 21st March 1413’
- 27th March 2012: Professor Guy Halsall (University of York), ‘Rethinking the “Age of Arthur”‘
- 2011: Professor David D’Avray (University College London)
Magna Carta Lecture Series
- 11th February 2015: Professor R.I. Moore (University of Newcastle), ‘Magna Carta in Global Perspective’
- 24th March 2015: Professor Nicholas Vincent (University of East Anglia), ‘Who wrote Magna Carta?’ (Vice Chancellor’s Annual Medieval Lecture)
- 27th March 2015: Roly Keating (British Library), ‘Magna Carta in the Digital Age’
- 23th April 2015: Dr Rachel Foxley (University of Reading), ‘Magna Carta and the Levellers’
- 21th May 2015: Dr Mark Goldie (University of Cambridge), ‘Magna Carta: the ancient constitution’