John Gray & Robert Tombs - The English Revolutionary Tradition

Wed Oct 29 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC+00:00

The Sheldonian Theatre | Oxford

Roger Scruton Memorial Lectures
Publisher/HostRoger Scruton Memorial Lectures
John Gray & Robert Tombs - The English Revolutionary Tradition
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Distinguished philosopher John Gray delivers the closing Oakeshott Lecture of 2025
About this Event

In the concluding Oakeshott Lecture of 2025, John Gray explores the English revolutionary tradition from Thomas Hobbes to Raise the Colours.

John Gray is a world-renowned philosopher, political theorist and intellectual historian. He has an asteroid named after him and until 2008 he was School Professor of European Thought at the LSE. He now writes principally for the New Statesman and has authored over twenty books including the bestselling Seven Types of Atheism, Straw Dogs, Black Mass, The Soul of the Marionette, The Silence of Animals and Feline Philosophy. His latest book, published by Penguin in September 2023, is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism.

After his lecture, Prof Gray will be joined on stage by eminent historian Prof Robert Tombs for what promises to be a lively discussion.

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The Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

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