Versailles 1919 --"The Carthaginian Peace"?
Event Type: Branch
Takes Place: 20th June 2026
Time: 14:30
Venue: The Auditorium, The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1TF
Description: Tony Lentin, Senior Member, Wolfson College, Cambridge. Author of books on the Paris Peace Conference, latterly The Treaty of Versailles and the Carthaginian Peace. Peacemaking and Mythmaking 1918-1919 (2025, paperback 2026). "The Carthaginian peace," J.M. Keynes' damning indictment of Versailles in The Economic Consequences of the Peace, shaped inter-war Britain's attitude to Versailles and the belief that Germany's treatment in 1919 made a war of revenge inevitable. More than a century later the book's influence continues to prevail. Should it?
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Price: Free to members otherwise £10
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Organiser: Simon Kinder
Lecturer: Professor Tony Lentin, Senior Member, Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Region: East of England
Branch: Norfolk & Norwich