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Join authors Paddy Docherty and David Olusoga for a conversation about Britain’s conquest of the Kingdom of Benin and the plunder of its fabled Bronzes.

Join ‘A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy’ author Katherine Harvey for a talk about how Saudi efforts to undermine Iranian influence paradoxically pushed Iraq into the Islamic Republic’s arms.

Join ‘Reinventing the Sheikhdom’ author Matthew Hedges for a talk about why the UAE remains critical to understanding the evolution of Middle Eastern authoritarian control.

Dr Matthew Hedges, a postgraduate teaching assistant at the University of Exeter, will talk about his research, his first book, and the ordeal of being arrested and accusedaaa

Join our author Hugo Slim for the launch of his new book ‘Solferino 21’, a persuasive overview of conflict and aid today, calling for a major rethink of war humanitarianism to meet the new challenges of the twenty-first century.