Am Donnerstag, dem 16. und Freitag, den 17. Juli 2026 fand eine Demokratiekonferenz statt, die vom ISB und dem Arbeitskreis Großbritannien Forschung mit Unterstützung des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London (DHIL) durchgeführt wurde.

Thursday, July 16, 2026

• Norbert Fabian (Bochum), The early English Revolution of 1381 and the European History of Freedom and Emancipation
• Nicholas Vincent (East Anglia), The Magna Carta of 1215 and the History of Libert
• Lyndal Roper (Oxford), For liberty! The German Peasant’s War of 1525 and the Twelve Articles.
• Andrew Wells (Kiel), Freedom’s Parish: Liberty in the Urban British Atlantic, 1660-1760
• Brigitta Schvéd (Budapest), Public Opinion, Political Media, and the Language of Freedom: Conceptualising Liberty and the Balance of Power in Early Eighteenth-Century British and Habsburg Contexts
• Alan S. Kahan (Paris), ‘Freedom from Fear’. Transatlantic Concepts of Liberalism
• Jan de Graaf (Bochum), A Model for All? European Responses to Labour’s 1945 Victory
• Alberto Pantaloni (Turin), Social Movements and Struggles in Britain and Italy at the End of the ‘Golden Age’: a Comparative Study

Friday, July 17, 2026

• Vicente Pons Marti (Frankfurt), Freedom, Parties, and Opposition. Political Party Debates in Britain from the French Revolution to the Reform Act of 1868
• Birgit Bublies-Godau (Bochum), The European Revolution of 1848/49 and the debate on Christopher Clark, ‘Revolutionary Spring. Fighting for a New World’
• Christina Sigrid Schlaich (Freiburg), The Politics of “Freedom” in the Making of Democratic Order: Stanley Baldwin and Transnational Public Spheres, c. 1922–1939
• Edmund Neill (London), Conservatism’ Adaption to Democracy in Mid- Twentieth Century Britain
• Round table and open final discussion: Theories and Concepts of Freedom and Revolution, Democracy and Reform - Comparisons and Responsible Learning from History Lyndal Roper, Norbert Fabian, Mathis Gronau, Birgit Bublies-Godau