Speaker: Simon Heffer
Topic: A History of Britain: From Victoria to the Second World War
Venue: Vinson Building
Time: 14:00-15:00, Saturday 16 September
Talk Summary:
Simon Heffer’s four-volume history of Britain from the reign of Queen Victoria to the Second World War offers an extraordinary account of a nation from the height of Empire to a costly vistory that brought an end to the imperial project. With typically robust opinion, an eye for the telling detail and a gift for bringing historical figures alive, Heffer probes the deep divisions that split Britain, between the haves and have-nots, and warring ideological factions, to reveal a picture of Britain that remains resonant today.
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Simon Heffer is one of Britain’s leading commentators, journalists and historians. His latest book is Sing as We Go, the fourth and final volume in his critically-acclaimed sequence of books – High Minds (2013), The Age of Decadence (2017) and Staring at God (2019) – charting the history of Britain in the century from the accession of Queen Victoria to the outbreak of the Second World War. His three-volume edition of the diaries of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon has met with universal acclaim.
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