The forty-seventh Strand Group event, held in conjunction with William Collins, took place on Thursday 11th of February. Suzanne Heywood, author of ‘What Does Jeremy Think? Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain’, discussed her new book in conversation with Professor Ed Balls, followed by a Q&A.
The forty-sixth Strand Group took place on the 19 January when Iain Dale editor of ‘The Prime Ministers: 55 Leaders, 55 Authors, 300 Years of History’, discussed this new book alongside contributing authors Sir Anthony Seldon, Rachel Sylvester and Dr Jack Brown.
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.”
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.
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.’
The fourth Institute of Historical Research-Strand Group ‘Institutions of British Government’ research seminar took place on Tuesday 8 September at 18.00.
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.