Speaking & Media
Protest, Power and the Past
As a state-educated, 'first-gen' university graduate, Lydia is passionate about public engagement and making historical scholarship accessible to all.
Sample Topics
The End of the British Empire
How was the British Empire contested, negotiated, and ultimately dismantled?
What gets to be History?
How societies remember, forget, and use the past — and what that means for the present.
British Foreign Policy
The long arc of British engagement with the world, from imperial expansion to post-war retrenchment.
Communist & Radical Histories
Left-wing movements, anti-colonial radicalism, and the global spread of revolutionary thought.
Post-Colonial Identities
Questions of nationhood, belonging, and identity in the aftermath of empire.
Archival Research
The politics of the archive — what is preserved, what is destroyed, and what that tells us.
Formats
Lectures & Seminars
Panel discussions
Literary festivals
Podcasts
Television
Interviews
Reviews