Rhetoric and Reality: Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Delors and European Integration during the 1980s
Lecture at the Cabinet Office, London (Whitehall), November 2016
Britain’s Informal Empire in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Dynamics and Legacy
PISE Lecture at Università Ca’Foscari, Venice, May 2016
Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Delors and the re-launch of European Integration in the mid-1980s
Contemporary British History Seminar, University of London (King’s College), March 2016
Imperialism in the Age of Decolonization
Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft, Berlin, November 2014
British Policy in the Persian Gulf during the 1960s
International History Seminar, University of London (Senate House), October 2014
The End of Empire in the Middle East
Université Paul-Valery in Montpellier, February 2013
Conferences Papers
A two-edged sword: Margaret Thatcher’s European legacy. (paper accepted)
Conference: Thatcherism Now
University of Liverpool, April 2018.
‘Thatcherism on a European Scale‘? Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Delors and the making of the Single European Act
Conference: Thatcher and Thatcherism. New Critical Perspectives
University of Durham, January 2017.
Two concepts of European Integration? Margaret Thatcher and Jacques Delors
Britain and the World Conference
King’s College London, June 2016.
Researching and promoting British history from the continent
Workshop: Teaching and Researching the Anglophone World in Europe
Metropolitan University Prague, April 2016.
Monarchy and the end of empire in the Persian Gulf: Britain and the governmental system of shaikhly rule
Workshop: Monarchy and Politics
Catholic Academy in Bavaria, Munich, August 2014
The pessimistic advocate: Britain’s views on federation between the Trucial States, 1961-1968
World Congress on Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES)
Middle East Technical University Ankara, August 2014.
“Prestige” and British Imperialism in the Middle East after the Suez Crisis, 1957-1968
Britain and the World Conference
University of Newcastle, June 2014.
The Consequences of imperialism on independence in the Gulf: Britain’s role in the depositions of Shaikh Saqr of Sharjah in 1965 and Shaikh Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi in 1966
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Conference
University of Sussex, June 2014
The limits of co-operation: Anglo-American relations in the Arabian Peninsula
Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
Arlington, VA, June 2013.
The role of the United Nations for Great Britain’s Persian Gulf policy during the 1960s
Britain and the World Conference
University of Edinburgh
June 2012
The British Government and the Deposition of Shaikh Saqr of Sharjah in May 1965
Gulf Studies Conference
University of Exeter, July 2011.
British policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968
Britain and the World Conference
University of Texas at Austin, March 2009.