This seminar, held in Michaelmas and Trinity terms of the academic year 2023-4, covers a range of issues relating to the wider Northern European Re-imagining Democracy project

1 November 2023: State Forms in Europe 1200-1900: Joanna Innes, John Watts and Peter Wilson

17 November 2023: Bethany McNamara-Dale (Oxford), Administrative entanglements in 19th C German Governance

1 December 2023: Lauren Lauret (UCL), ‘The added value of electing some colonial torch bearers – representation and empire in the Netherlands c 1850

Trinity term 2024

23 May 2024 Erik Bengsston (Lund) The Road to Democracy in Sweden

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May 30 Benedek Varga (Singapore/Budapest) Sovereign Illusions: Hug Grotius, Royal Power and the Estates in 18th C Hungary

June 6 Mark Hewitson, (UCL) Revolutionary Democracy: The German Lands in 1848-9

June 13 Jasper Heinzen (University of York) A Momentous decade of (in)decision: reassessing the 1860s in German Political History