Buckingham Festival Talks 2023 NIGEL BIGGAR on the Morality of Empire and the War on Woke DAVID BUTTERFIELD on Why We Need the Classics DAVID CARPENTER on Henry III: Rebellion, Civil War, and Redemption LAURA CUMMING on the Power of Painting CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESSCHRISTINA FARADAY on What the Tudors and Stuarts Saw HELEN FRY on Women in British Intelligence JONATHAN HEALEY on the Turbulent Seventeenth Century PETER HEATHER on How Empires Fall SIMON HEFFER on a History of Britain from Victoria to the Second World War JULIAN JACKSON on the Trial of Marshal Pétain ANNA KEAY on the Restless Republic ALEXANDER LARMAN on the Windsors at War ROBERT LYMAN on From Victory to Defeat: the Rise and Fall of the British Army, 1918-40 IAIN MACGREGOR on the Battle of Stalingrad OWEN MATTHEWS on the Rise and Fall of Putin’s Empire PETER MOORE on Britain and the American Dream ROGER MOORHOUSE on Escaping the Holocaust: the Forgers’ Forgotten Story ELIZABETH NORTON on Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s Discarded Queen TOMIWA OWOLADE on Black British History: We are Not America FRANCESA PEACOCK on the Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish GARETH RUSSELL on 500 Years of Hampton Court Palace DOMINIC SANDBROOK on Appeasement Reassessed: Hitler, Chamberlain, and the Road to the Second World War OLIVER SODEN on the Lives of Noël Coward NIGEL BIGGAR, TIFFANY JENKINS, and TOMIWA OWOLADE on the State of History Today EDWARD WILSON-LEE on the Renaissance Confronts the Orient: the One-eyed Pirate and the Humanist Encounter Sixteenth-century India and China