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‘Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare’
with Professor Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford)
Royal Historical Society Lecture
6.30pm, Friday 12 September 2025
Voysey Room, Mary Ward House, 5-7 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SN.
About our speaker
Professor Yasmin Khan is Professor of Modern Histiory in the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford.
Yasmin's research focuses on the history of the British in India, the British Empire, South Asian decolonization, refugees and the aftermath of empire. She has also written about the Second World War and the imperial dimensions of the conflict. Her publications include The Raj at War: a People's History of India's Second World War (2015) and The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan (2007) which was awarded the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Book Prize.
Yasmin is an editor of History Workshop Journal, a journal committed to debating the role of history in public life, and exploring the dialogue between past and present. She has contributed to media including the Guardian, BBC Radio and Channel 4 News. In 2018 she presented the BBC2 television series, A Passage to Britain.
Accessibility
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MAIN IMAGE: Edward Stanford. 'The British Empire at War' (1916), University of Illinois Library
