Coursework

Richard Evans provides a lecture on Bismark and his wars of German Unification.


John Merriman from Yale University gives a lecture on the Alliance Systems

Christopher Clark gives a lecture based on his book Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War in 1914


Margaret Macmillan gives a very comprehensive lecture on the main causes of the First World War and asks the question: was it a choice or an accident?


  • Christopher Clark: How Europe went to war lectures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1yJo-g5cH8 – House of Literature Oslo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xlOjIk6xbU - Laura Shannon Prize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ug_0RmMYYc – University of Buckingham


  • Niall Ferguson the Pity of War TV Debate (£2.49)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL-YKeWopUY - well worth purchasing, an interesting debate by Britain’s leading First World War experts.


The British Library Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqO5CnnKLtA&ebc=ANyPxKpSKoZoOqNHch1Q2cmVnxNPpPC9Nauu6FBS-QQzb7QDn5XqMoTKNvhUctNrEAkRm28RYjBQ - An excellent debate from four historians on whether or not Britain should have joined the First World War including Margaret Macmillan.