23rd online presentation with guest speaker Mike Wagner: ‘Guns, Money and Lawyers: The English Chartered Trading Companies’, 24 January 2023 - flyer: - interview:
24th online presentation with guest speaker Ben Singer: ‘Rediscovering the Diversity of a Levantine Family – the Jewish, German, Austrian, French and Armenian branches of One Istanbul Family’, 26 February 2023 - flyer:
25th online presentation with guest speaker Prof. Uri M. Kupferschmidt: ‘Department Stores and Luxuries in the Levant: The Spread of Western Consumption Goods in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, 21 March 2023 - flyer: - interview:
3rd joint LHF / Royal Asiatic Society live lecture gathering with guest speaker Dr Gemma Masson: ‘Upstairs, Downstairs: British Diplomatic Travellers in 18th Century Istanbul’, 28 March 2023 - flyer: - interview:
26th online presentation with guest speaker Enno Maessen: ‘Urban life in Twentieth-Century Beyoğlu’, 8 May 2023 - flyer: - interview:
27th online presentation with guest speakers Gillian Mueller & James de Wesselow: ‘George Baker: From London Waif to Merchant Mogul of Constantinople, 1848-1905’, 13 June 2023 - flyer: - ‘Baker Threads’ book summary: - interview:
28th online presentation with guest speaker Reem Haddad: ‘From Smyrna to Beirut: The Story of International College’, 3 July 2023 - flyer: - interview:
29th online presentation with guest speaker Chloe Metz: ‘“A Thoroughly Mongrel Race” in a “Faraway, Gaslit World”: Levantine Liminality and Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Port Cities’, 25 July 2023 - flyer: - interview:
4th joint LHF / Royal Asiatic Society hybrid lecture gathering with guest speaker Stephen Boys Smith: ‘Through Consular Eyes: Thomas Sandwith, British Levant Consul 1855-1891’, 28 November 2023 - flyer: - interview:
2nd joint LHF / Anglo-Turkish Society hybrid lecture gathering with guest speaker Philip Mansel: ‘The Grand Tour in the Levant, from Athens, via Constantinople and Aleppo, to Cairo: Power, Pleasure and Scholarship’, 12 December 2023 - flyer: - slides: - interview:
