World-famous pro-Europe historian to speak on Brexit in Oxfordshire

Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at the European Studies Centre, St Anthony’s College, Oxford, and senior fellow at Stanford University, is an internationally renowned expert on recent European history, an author and journalist.

He’ll be speaking at a public meeting titled “Britain is still in Europe” on November 27 at 7pm, at the New Road Baptists Church, Bonn Square in Oxford city centre.

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The event is organised by Oxford for Europe, a volunteer-run grassroots campaign group working to promote unity across Europe as part of the pro-EU movement.

The organisation said: “Professor Garton Ash is absolutely the person for whom the term ‘public intellectual’ was invented.

“We are privileged to be able to welcome him as a speaker and to have the opportunity of a question-and-answer session.”

In Oxford on 27 November? Join me to discuss Britain’s relationship with the rest of Europe – as our continent is attacked by Putin and nervously awaits Trump. 1900, in the church at (suitably enough) Bonn Square… https://t.co/6JIE4nxEeA

— Timothy Garton Ash (@fromTGA) November 19, 2024

Mr Garton Ash is considered the greatest living expert and reporter on the recent history of central Europe and believes that Britain belongs in Europe.

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His talk will ask where Britain will stand in relation to Europe under Labour, and with a new president in the US.  

He’s previously won the Charlemagne Medal, a prize awarded for work done in the service of European unification, was voted a Time magazine top 100 influential people, and regularly writes for national titles.

He’s published 10 widely-praised books, including his most recent memoir Homelands: A Personal History of Europe.

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