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On 17 May, Centre Director Brendan Simms co-published a book to mark the eightieth anniversary of the battle of Midway. It was immediately hailed by the Sunday Telegraph as ‘the best account yet’ of the encounter. Midway was an iconic battle. The Japanese had run riot across the Pacific after Pearl Harbor in early December...

By Rt Hon Charles Clarke, Joint Leader of the Baltic Geopolitics Programme The first major in-person Symposium of the Baltic Geopolitics Programme – The Baltic contribution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 – took place in the Theatre at Peterhouse on Wednesday 23 March 23 and also marked the first anniversary...

The end of the Great War brought about a new era for Europe in many respects, not least for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia which emerged independent for the very first time. The new states were small and thus found their initial assertions of sovereignty influenced by the interests and influences of great powers. The arena...

On 24 November, Professor Brendan Simms and Dr Charlie Laderman discussed their new book ‘Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War’ in conversation with the prominent television presenter and historian Jonathan Dimbleby. Over the course of an hour-long webinar, the panelists examined the...