Past events

Women in the Lords: Britain’s global role in the next decade

Baroness Williams of Crosby gave the second lecture in the Women in the Lords series discussing ‘Britain’s global role in the world in the next decade.’

Journalism and History

The journalist and broadcaster Andrew Marr gave the forty-second Mile End Group on the theme of ‘Journalism and History’

Women in the Lords: The Life Peerages Act – Woman and Change in the House of Lords since 1958

To celebrate 50 years of The Life Peerages Act Baroness Hayman the Lord speaker gave the forty-first Mile End Group in the House of Lords.

Next Steps

Kate Jenkins, the former Head of the Prime Minister’s Efficiency unit spoke about ‘Next Steps’ at the fortieth Mile End Group

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’