Sir George Radford and the first British delegation to Budapest

Speaker: Dr Thomas Lorman
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1

Sir George Radford was MP for the former constituency of Islington East from 1906 to 1917. His corpus of literature does not seem to be vast; he never held ministerial office and never rebelled against the party line. But in 1906 he led the first British Parliamentary delegation to Budapest. What drew him from London N1 to the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

Thomas Lorman, a previous speaker to the Society, took a PhD in History at the University of London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and divides his time between teaching in the United States and researching and publishing in the UK and Europe. He is an acknowledged authority on British history and Hungarian high politics, and specialises in the history of Anglo-Hungarian relations.