Past events

The New Security Architecture

The thirty-ninth meeting of the Mile End Group was given by Sir Richard Mottram, former Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence on ‘The New Security Architecture’

Britain and America, Ideology gone West

BBC Radio 4 Today presenter James Naughtie delivered the thirty-eighth Mile End Group discussing, ‘Britain and America, Ideology gone West’

2nd Michael Young Memorial Lecture in partnership with the Young Foundation, Professor Sir Peter Hall, ‘London Lives, London Voices’

Professor Sir Peter Hall gave the second Michael Young Memorial Lecture on the topic of, ‘London Lives, London Voices’

Instruction to Deliver: Tony Blair, the Public Services and the Challenge of Delivery

Former head of the Prime Minister’s delivery unit Professor Sir Michael Barber gave the thirty-sixth Mile End Group discussing his book, ‘Instruction to Deliver’

More Than A Game – Sir John Major

At the thirty-fifth Mile End Group former Prime Minister John Major launched his book on the history of cricket ‘More Than A Game’

The New Protective State

Professor Peter Hennessy launched his edited collection of essays regarding ‘The New Protective State’ at the thirty-fourth meeting of the Mile End Group

War Cabinets

At the thirty-third meeting of the Mile End Group renowned diplomat Sir Robert Wade-Gery discussed War Cabinets

Good and Bad Power

At the thirty-second meeting of the Mile End Group Geoff Mulgan discussed ‘Good and Bad power’

30th Anniversary of the British IMF Negotiations

The thirty-first meeting of the Mile End Group brought together a panel of Lord Donoughue, Baroness Williams, Lord McNally, Adam Raphael, William Keegan, Hugh Stephenson, Peter Jay and Sir Alan Bailey to discuss the IMF crisis in 1976