Complex Relations: Britain and Russia across the centuries

Complex Relations: Britain and Russia across the centuries

30 April 2025 19:00Inextricably linked, sometimes aligned, often at tense and competitive odds, Britain and Russia have had a complex relationship over the centuries. Barbara Emerson’s latest work of panoramic history, The First Cold War, illustrates how, throughout the 19th century, two great empires went from frosty civility to acrimonious rivalry, into war and then fragile diplomacy. Giles Milton, in his most recent book, The Stalin Affair, t…