Past events

Lord Moore of Etchingham: The Thirtieth Anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s Downfall

The forty-fifth Strand Group event took place on Wednesday 25th of November when Lord Moore of Etchingham discussed the the thirtieth anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s downfall as Prime Minister. This session also marked the paperback publication of Lord Moore’s “Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography – Volume Three: Herself Alone.”

Lord Adonis: ‘Courage with Wisdom’ The Roy Jenkins Centenary Lecture

The forty-fourth Strand Group event took place on Tuesday 17th of November when King’s College London Visiting Professor Lord Adonis delivered the Roy Jenkins Centenary Lecture.

Ciaran Martin: ‘Cyber weapons are called viruses for a reason: statecraft, security and safety in the digital age.’

King’s College London Visiting Professor Ciaran Martin gave his inaugural Strand Group lecture on the subject: ‘Cyber weapons are called viruses for a reason: statecraft, security and safety in the digital age.’

Book launch – Professor Sir David Omand: How Spies Think

The forty-second Strand Group launched Professor Sir David Omand’s new book, How Spies Think: 10 Lessons in Intelligence.

‘Who finances the financiers? Twenty years of HM Treasury resource accounts’

The fourth Institute of Historical Research-Strand Group ‘Institutions of British Government’ research seminar took place on Tuesday 8 September at 18.00.

‘Transatlantic Trade and Economic Cooperation through the Pandemic: Will prioritising a UK-US Free Trade Agreement make or break ‘Global Britain’?’

The forty-first Strand Group event launching a new paper for Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government on the prospects for a US-UK Free Trade Agreement took place via Zoom webinar.

The Eighth Sir Michael Quinlan Memorial Lecture

Professor Sir David Omand discussed: ‘The Future of Deterrence’

Dr Jack Brown – The Geography of Power at No.10 Downing Street

Dr Jack Brown gave the third Institutions of British Government Seminar on his book: The Geography of Power at No.10 Downing Street

Lord Macpherson ‘A Century of British Economic Crises: Cause & Response’

Lord Macpherson delivered the thirty-ninth Strand Group discussing ‘A Century of British Economic Crises: Cause & Response’.