Taking Stock of Official History, past, present and future

Keynote Lecture: Reflections from an Official Historian (Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman

Panel discussion
Chair: Philip Murphy (History & Policy)

  • Sir Lawrence Freedman (Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College London)
  • Helen McCarthy (Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History, University of Cambridge)
  • Matthew Jones (Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science) 
  • Roger Smethurst (Deputy Director, Propriety and Constitution Group, Cabinet Office)

IHR Seminar Series: Official History: Past, Present and Future