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Confirmed speakers for the conference include Professor David Reynolds and Professor Jenny Wormald. David Reynolds is Professor of International History and a Fellow of Christ’s College. From October 2013 he will be Chairman of the Faculty of History. His visiting positions include posts at Harvard, Nihon University in Tokyo and Sciences Po in Paris. He won the Wolfson Prize for History, 2004, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and a member of the Society of American Historians in 2011. He is the author of eleven books, and three edited or co-edited volumes. He has also written and presented nine historical documentaries for BBC TV, ranging across the international history of the 20th century, as well as the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series America, Empire of Liberty. Professor Reynolds will present the Keynote Address on Saturday, 21 June in the Kings Hall at Newcastle University (Kings Hall Information).

Jenny Wormald is currently an Honorary Fellow in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. She previously taught at the University of Glasgow (1966-1985) and Oxford University (1985-2005). She has published important works on bloodfeud, the Scottish Reformation, and the reign of James VI and I. She will deliver the Conference Opening Lecture on Thursday, 19 June.

More information about these lectures as well as the announcement of the Frank Turner Memorial Lecture and the Global Britain Lecture will appear in our Newsletter in the months ahead. To receive our free monthly newsletter please sign up by visiting http://www.britishscholar.org, enter your e-mail address at the top, and click Subscribe.

The fifth annual Wm. Roger Louis Prize, awarded to the best paper delivered at the Britain and the World Conference, will also be announced on 21 June. The Prize is worth $1000 and the winning paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of Britain and the World: Historical Journal of The British Scholar Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The Britain and the World Conference 2014 will include our Conference Icebreaker on Thursday night, 19 June, at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, our Dinner Party on Friday night, 20 June at historic and beautiful Alnwick Castle (Harry Potter’s Castle), as well as our Conference wrap-up party at the Town Wall Pub and Eatery on 21 June. These events will provide numerous opportunities for networking and merrymaking in and around England’s northern capital city of Newcastle.