Wimpole History Festival: David Abulafia, Dr Julie Smith & Philip Murphy - Britain and the Worl Post-Brexit

2016’s referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union rocked Britain, whether the result left you downcast or delighted. But how did we get to that result? How has Britain’s role on the global stage, and especially in Europe, led us to Article 50 and a looming Brexit? What future role might it play, and can the Commonwealth really save British trade and diplomacy? David Abulafia, Chair of the cross-party ‘Historians for Britain’ (which has long argued for reform of the EU), Dr Julie Smith, Director of the European Centre at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Politics and International Studies, and Philip Murphy, author of The Empire’s New Clothes: The Myth of the Commonwealth, will place Brexit in its historical context, and debate Britain’s negotiation of a new place in the world.

 

Chaired by Liam Halligan, economist, Telegraph columnist and broadcaster