Biographies from time of event

James Ellison is Reader in International History at Queen Mary University of London and Deputy Chair of the British International History Group.

John Fisher is Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of the West of England - Bristol.

Keith Hamilton is Visiting Professor, King's College London, and former senior editor of Documents on British Policy Overseas, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Effie Pedaliu is a Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS and Co-editor of the Palgrave Book Series Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World.

Richard Smith (@rsmith99) is Senior Historian at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Editor of Documents on British Policy Overseas.

Chair: Piers Ludlow is Deputy Head of Department and Director of Teaching Programmes at the LSE Department of International History.