I:   Meetings, Seminars and Conferences, 1969-1999
II:  "The Putney Debates" (Tim's Soirees), 1989-1999
III: "Brian's Evenings", 1988-1999

I:  MEETINGS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES, 1969-1999

1969-1979

Unfortunately we lack complete or detailed records of our earliest meetings in the period 1969-1979. Some which we can recall were:

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "In Defence of the City: The Rise of Urban Revisionism"

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Racism: The Lowest Form of Collectivism"

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Why Drugs Should Be Legalised"

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "The Case for Moral Freedom: Pornography, Sex and Drugs"

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Anti-Semitism: The Socialist Impulse"

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "The Economic Interpretation of History Revisited"

Graham Smith - "A Libertarian Approach to Trade Union Law", 26 August, 1979
Graham Smith is a practising Solicitor

1980

Debate with the Socialist Party of Great Britain - "The Free Market or Socialism", 13 June, 1980

Ed Clarke - "The Libertarian Party and the Presidential Campaign", 22 July, 1980
Ed Clarke is the US Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate

Seminar - "The Right to Abortion: For and Against", 17 February, 1980

Seminar - "The Case For and Against Anarchism", 13 April, 1980

Jillian Becker - "South Africa Now", 11 May, 1980
Jillian Becker is a distinguished novelist, anti-apartheid exponent, and author of Hitler's Children, a study of the terrorist group the Baader Meinhoff Red Army Fraction

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "The Case for Natural Rights", 15 June, 1980

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Libertarian Class Analysis: An Introduction", 13 July, 1980

David Hart - "Gustave De Molinari's Anarchism", 10 August, 1980
David Hart is an Australian libertarian activist and PhD student

Dr. John Burton - "Unionism, Freedom and Democracy", 28 September, 1980
Dr. John Burton is Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham and has contributed to many scholarly publications

Nicholas Beeching - "The Micro-Processor Revolution", 19 October, 1980

Dr. Robert Lefever, MD - "The Difference Between a Welfare State and a Totalitarian State is Only a Matter of Time"
Dr. Robert Lefever is a former NHS doctor and the founder of the PROMIS Unit of Primary Care - the only PROMIS unit in Britain. He is a frequent broadcaster and writer on medical issues.

Seminar - "On Natural Rights", 7 December, 1980

1981

Seminar - "Where Do We Go From Here: The Prospects for Liberty", 4 January, 1981

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "The Case Against Immigration Controls", 25 January, 1981

Seminar - "Crime as a Rational Activity: An Economic Analysis", 29 March, 1981

Graham Smith - "Laissez Faire and the Closed Shop", 12 April, 1981
Graham Smith is a practicing Solicitor and a former Research Officer for the Natioanl Association for Freedom [later renamed the Freedom Association]

Dr. Barry Bracewell-Milnes - "Tax Avoidance and Evasion", 17 May, 1980
Dr. Barry Bracewell-Milnes is one of Britain's leading tax experts and economists, and the author of many books and scholarly essays.

Bridget Philip - "Global Political Oppression and the Work of Amnesty", 7 June, 1981
Bridget Philip is a leading activist in Amnesty, the international human rights campaign

Dr. Kenneth Minogue - "The Brandt Report: A Distributionist Fantasy", 28 June, 1981
Dr. Kenneth Minogue is Reader in Political Science at the London School of Economics and the author of many scholarly essays and books, including The Liberal Mind, The Idea of the University, and Nationalism.

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "The Individualist Anarchist Tradition: An Introductory History", 19 July, 1981

Debate with the Socialist Party of Great Britain - "Which Way Forward: The FreeMarket or Socialism?", 10 September, 1981

Debate with the Socialist Party of Great Britain - "The State and Social Development", 20 September, 1981

Antony Grey - "Sex and the Law", 19 October, 1981
Antony Grey is a former Executive Commiitee member of the National Council of Civil Liberties and of the Defence of Literature and the Arts Society (now the Campaign Against Censorship) and is Chairman of the Sexual Law Reform Society.  As Secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society he was one of the pioneer campaigners for the abolition of legal discrimination against homosexuality achieved by the 1967 Sexual Offences Act

Brian Micklethwait - "Architecture and Ideology", 13 December, 1981

1982

Dr. Hillel Steiner - "Libertarianism and Equality", 17 January, 1982
Dr. Hillel Steiner is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, and author of a number of scholarly essays

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Conservatism: A Libertarian Critique", 18 April, 1982

Patricia Morgan - "Law, Responsibility and Children", 10 June, 1982
Patricia Morgan is holder of the Morris Finer Fellowshp at the London School of Economics, author of Delinquent Fantasies and has written frequently in the press on issues of criminology, delinquency and child-rearing

One Day Conference - "Libertarianism and Foreign Policy - 22 August, 1982
Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Libertarianism and Foreign Policy: An Historical Overview"
Nicholas Beeching - "Foreign Policy: Ideology and Reality"
George Miller - "Nations or Institutions: Who Conducts Russian Foreign Policy?"
George Miller is former Senior Vice-Chairman of the Young Liberals, former Senior Reserach Officer of the Institute for European Defense and Strategic Studies, Secretary of the East European Sub-Committee of the Foreign Affairs Panel of the Liberal Party, and Editor of Soviet Labour Review. He is also British Representative of NTS, the heroic anti-Soviet resistance organisation
Brian Micklethwait - "The Peace Movement Case"

Professor Antony Flew - "Liberty and Four Kinds of Equality', 19 September, 1982
Antony Flew is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. One of Britain's most eminent philosophers he is the author of a huge number of scholarly essays and books, including An Introduction to Western Philosophy, Hume's Philosophy of Belief, Crime or Disease?, The Idea of God, God and Philosophy, and Sociology, Equality and Education

1983

Chris Horrie & Gerry Frost - "Debate - Unilateral Disarmament: The Case For and Against", 30 January, 1983
Chris Horrie is Editor of Sanity, the journal of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. 
Gerry Frost is former Director of the Centre for Policy Studies and currently Director of the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies and co-author of Protest and Perish:  Critique of Unilateralism

Jillian Becker - "Some Light on the Lebanon", 27 February, 1983
Jillian Becker is a distinguished novelist, anti-apartheid exponent, and author of Hitler's Children, a study of the terrorist group the Baader Meinhoff Red Army Fraction. She is currently completing a book on the PLO.

Leonard Liggio - "Two Approaches to American Foreign Policy", 3 March, 1983 
Leonard Liggio is President of the Institute of Humane Studies in California. A contributer to the leading libertarian journals Left and Right and Libertarian Forum he was also co-editor of Watershed of Empire: Essays on New Deal Foreign Policy. His monograph Why the Futile Crusade? is a major statement of the case for isolationism in foreign policy

Tony Hollick - "Living Free", 27 March, 1983
Tony Hollick is software designer and is currently Editor of the LA's journal Free Life

Brian Micklethwait - "The State of British Broadcasting", 24 April, 1983

The English Collective of Prostitutes - "Prostitution and Unemployment", 16 May, 1983
The English Collective of Prostitutes is an organisation of current and former prostitutes, which campaigns for changes in the law relating to sexual offences

Brian Micklethwait & Terry Liddle - "Libertarian Capitalism versus Libertarian Socialism", 29 May, 1983
Terry Liddle is Editor of Volya, the bulletin of the Campaign for Solidarity With the Soviet Working Class, Secretary of the Socialist Secular Association and a menber of the Labour Party

Paul Michaels - "Life Extension: Progress and Prospect", 27 May, 1983
A longstanding libertarian Paul Michaels is Director of Life Extension (UK) Ltd., which markets vitamins and other products which promote health and longevity

Mark Rogers - "Th Defamation of Liberty: Critics of America and Israel", 24 June, 1983
Mark Rogers is a Libertarian Alliance writer

George Miller - "Opposition and Free Trade Unions in the Soviet Union", 26 June, 1983
George Miller is former Senior Vice-Chairman of the Young Liberals, former Senior Research Officer of the Institute for European Defense and Strategic Studies, Secretary of the East European Sub-Committee of the Foreign Affairs Panel of the Liberal Party, and Editor of Soviet Labour Review. He is also British Representative of NTS, the heroic anti-Soviet resistance organisation, whose activist Valery Senderov was recently jailed in the USSR for documenting Communist anti-semitism

Special Seminar - "Trade Unions and the Free Society", 6 July, 1983
Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Trade Unions and Freedom: An Historical Perspective"
Dr. John Burton - "Trade Union Coercion: The Moral and Economic Consequences"
Dr. John Burton is Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. His books include Wage Inflation, The Job Support Machine, The Consequences of Mr. Keynes, and Picking Losers: The Political Economy of Industrial Policy

Max O'Connor [now known as Max More] - "Aspects of British Economic History: Some Libertarian Perspectives", 29 July, 1983
Max O'Connor is a student at St. Annes College, Oxford

Dr. Ralph Horwitz - "The Withering Away of Apartheid: A Capitalist Manifesto", 31 July, 1983
The former President of the National Union of South Afican Students and the Publisher-Editor of Forum, Ralph Horwitz renounced his South African citizenship in protest at apartheid. A distinguished economist, he has contributed to such journals as Managerial Economics, New Universities Quarterly and Political Quarterly and is the author of The Political Economy of South Africa

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "National Self-Determination: The Threat to Liberty", 28 August, 1983
Bernard Adamczewski - "Recollections of a Black Marketeer", 26 August, 1983
Bernard Adamczewski is a former shepherd, businessman, researcher and one-time black marketeer in post-War Germany

Professor David Friedman - "What Do Libertarian Economists Do?", 9 September, 1983
David Friedman is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, a contributor to many scholarly journals and author of The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism and Laissez Faire in Population: The Least Bad Solution

Bob Beckman - "The Downwave: Prospects for Liberty", 25 September, 1983
Bob Beckman is a controversial financial journalist and broadcaster. His daily "Beckman Report" on LBC Radio is the UK's most popular financial programme. He is also Editor of Investor's Bulletin, and author of Share Price Analysis, The Elliot Wave Principle, Supertiming, and the recent best-seller, The Downwave: Surviving the Second Great Depression

The Rev. Ndabezinhle Bongani Musa - "Marxism Versus Freedom", 19 November 1983
Rev. Musa is a former member of Joshua Nkomo's revolutionary force in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), receiving his military training in the USSR. Following his conversion to Christianity he founded the Apostolic Revival Movement, which aims to combat Marxist pseudo-"liberation" movements and to unite black and white Rhodesians in a free society. Imprisoned and subsequently exiled by the Mugabe regime he now lives in Frankfurt

One Day Conference - "Arguments for Liberty", 10 December, 1983
Dr. John Burton - "Economic Arguments for Liberty"
Dr. John Burton is Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. His books include Wage Inflation, The Job Support Machine, The Consequences of Mr. Keynes, and Picking Losers: The Political Economy of Industrial Policy
Dr. Norman Barry - "Divergent Approaches in Libertarian Thought"
Dr. Norman Barry is Reader in Political Philosophy at the University of Buckingham. He is the author of  The Political and Social Philosophy of F. A. Hayek and An Introduction to Modern Political Theory
John O'Sullivan - "The Conservative Approach to Liberty"
John O'Sullivan, the former Editor of Policy Review, is now Leader writer for The Daily Telegraph
Professor Antony Flew - "Liberty and Equality"
Antony Flew is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of a huge number of scholarly essays and books, including An Introduction to Western Philosophy, Hume's Philosophy of Belief, Crime or Disease?, God and Philosophy, The Idea of God, and Sociology, Equality and Education

Arthur Seldon, CBE - "Why the Welfare State?", 12 December, 1983
Arthur Seldon is a founder Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs and the pioneer of radical analysis of the NHS and health and welfare economics. He is the author of countless major books, monographs and scholarly essays including Charge!, The Great Pensions Swindle, The Everyman Dictionary of Economics, Pricing or Taxing, Socialism Explained, Corrigible Capitalism, Incorrigible Socialism, Whither the Welfare State, and the forthcoming Capitalism. He was awarded the CBE in 1983 

1984

Dr. David Green - "Health Care: Free Choice or Paternalism?"
A former Labour Party Councillor, Dr. David Green is author of Power and Party in an English City aand has contributed to such journals as Municipal Review, Local Government Studies, The Journal of Social Policy and Economic Affairs

Hannes Gissurarson - "The Road to Serfdom After Forty Years", 26 February, 1984
Hannes Gissuarson is one of Iceland's leading libertarian activists. He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on Hayek at Oxford University. He is the author of an Icelandic language book on Adam Smith, The Invisble Hand

Chandran Kukathas - "Is the State Necessary?: Some Problems for Individualist Anarchists", 29 April, 1984
Chandran Kukathas, a New Zealand libertarian, is currently completing his doctorate on Hayek at Linacre College, Oxford. The founder of the Hayek Society at Oxford he has also contributed to Economic Affairs

Tim Congdon - "Beyond the Free Market", 25 March, 1984
Formerly Economics Correspondent for The Times, Tim Congdon is Senior Economist and Economics Partner with L. Messel. His many books and monographs include, Monetarism: An Essay in Definition, Monetary Controls in Britain, Against Import Controls, andBasic Economics

One Week Conference - The Second World Libertarian Convention, 13-19 August, 1984
Dr. Norman Barry - "Differing Foundations and Unresolved Issues in Libertarian Thought"
Dr. Norman Barry is Reader in Political Philosophy at the University of Buckingham. He is the author of The Political and Social Philosophy of F. A. Hayek and An Introduction to Modern Political Theory
Dr. Peter Breggin - "The Psychology of Freedom"
One of the USA's leading humanistic psychologists, Dr. Peter Breggin is author of The Crazy From the Sane, After the Good War, Psychiatric Drugs: Hazards to the Brain, andThe Psychology of Freedom
Frances Kendall - "Freedom and the Child"
Frances Kendall is Editor of the South African libertarian journal The Individualist and author ofSuper Parents, Super Children. She has also contributed to Reason andThe Free Market
Professor Arthur Shenfield - "Enforceable and Unenforceable Morality in the Free Society"
Professor Arthur Shenfield - "1984: The Relevance of Winston Churchill's 'Gestapo' Speech"
Arthur Shenfield is Visting Professor at both Rockford College and the University of Chicago, former Economic Director of the Confederation of British Industry and former President of the Mont Pelerin Conference. He is author of numerous scholarly papers and monographs, including The Ideological War Against Western Society, The Roots of American Discontent, Myth and Reality in American Society andIcarus: On the Failure of Democratic Socialism
Professor Geoffrey Sampson - "Nozick vs Hayek: Backward Looking vs. Forward Looking Liberalism"
Geoffrey Sampson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leeds and author of Making Sense, The Form of Language, Liberty and Language, and An End to Allegiance: Personal Freedom and the New Politics
Dr. John Ray - "Psychological and Biological Insights on the Nature of Authoritarianism"
Dr. John Ray is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New South Wales. He is editor of Conservatism as Heresy: An Australian Reader in the Conservative Viewpoint, co-editor of Authoritarianism Across Cultures, and has contributed to a huge number of scholarly journals, including The Australian Journal of Psychology, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Jewish Journal of Sociology, The British Journal of Psychology, Sociological Analysis and The British Journal of Political Science
Dr. Camille Castorina - "A Libertarian World Tour"
Dr. Camille Castorino is Associate Professor of Economics at Florida Institute of Technology. She has contributed to The Journal of Economic Literature and The Economic History Review
Dr. Madsen Pirie - "Micro-Politics and Rolling Back the State"
Formerly Professor of Philosophy at Hillsdale College Dr. Madsen Pirie is President of the influential Adam Smith Institute He is also the author of numerous books and monographs including Trial and Error and the Idea of Progress and The Logic of Economics
Brian Micklethwait, Fred Stitt, & Hubert Jongen - "A Panel on Libertarian Tactics"
Fred Stitt is a practising architect in America, editor of Guidelines newsletter and the author of a number of books and essays on achitecture
Hubert Jongen is a successful entrepreneur and management consultant and President of the Dutch Libertarian Society
Sam Konkin - "The Counter-Economy"
Sam Konkn is leader of both the New Libertarian Alliance and the Movement of the Libertarian Left. He is also Editor of The New Libertarian, and the author of many essays and monographs, including The New Libertarian Manifesto
Vince Miller & Eric Verhulst - "A Panel on Libertarian Tactics"
Vince Miller is Chairman and Founder of the Libertarian International and Editor of Free World Chronicle
Eric Verhulst is President of the Libertarian Study Centre in Holland
Professor John Hospers - "Has 1984 Been Fulfilled?"
John Hospers is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Former President of the American Philosophical Society, he is the author of countless scholarly articles and books, including Human Conduct: An Introduction to the Problem of Ethics, An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, Readings in Philosophical Analysis, and Libertarianism 
Dr. John Burton - "The Failure of the Middle Way"
Dr. John Burton is Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. His books include Wage Inflation, The Job Support Machine, The Consequences of Mr. Keynes, Picking Losers: The Political Economy of Industrial Policy, Trade Unions and Society, andThe Subsidy Morass
Dr. Eamon Butler - "Are We Still on the Road to Serfdom?"
Formerly a Research Associate with the US House of Representatives, Dr. Eamonn Bultler is a Director of the Adam Smith Instute. He is also the author of many scholarly essays and books, including Forty Centurries of Wages and Price Controls
Leon Louw - "Libertarianism in Traditional African Law and Custom"
Leon Louw - "Ciskei" A New Hong Kong in Southern Africa?"
Leon Low is a practising lawyer and Executive Director of the Free Market Foundation in South Africa. A leading libertarian critic of apartheid he was also a member of thwe Swart Commission on the economic future of the Ciskei region
Dr. Walter Williams - "Minority Unemployment"
Dr. Walter Williams is John H. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University. His many many articles have appeared in such journals as Policy Review and The American Spectator, and he is also the author of the recently published The State Against Blacks
Fred Foldvary - "Public Revenues Without Taxation"
Fred Foldvary is former President of the Board of the Henry George School of San Francisco and has been a US Libertarian Party candidate for state assembly in California. A former Editor of The Libertarian Digest he is also the author of The Soul of Liberty
Dr. Walter Block - "Unemploymment and the State Against the Economy"
Dr. Walter Block is Director of the Centre for the Study of Economics and Religion at the Fraser Institute in Canada. He is the author of many scholarlky essays on economics and methodology and of the controversial book  Defending the Undefendable
Dr. Nigel Ashford - "The Continuing Keymesian Menace: Its Significance and Ramifications"
Dr. Nigel Ashford is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Strathclyde. Formerly Secretary General of the European Democrat Students he has also contributed to a number of academic journals, including Government and Opposition, Salisbury Review, Dilog (Norway) and Tidskriften Heimdal (Sweden)
Arthur Seldon, CBE - "Down With Democracy: An Economics of Politics Approach"
Arthur Seldon is a founder Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, the pioneer of radical analysis of the NHS and health and welfare economics. He is the author of countless major books, monographs and scholarly essays including Charge!, The Great Pensions Swindle, The Everyman Dictionary of Economics, Pricing or Taxing, Socialism Explained, Corrigible Capitalsim, Incorrigible Socialism, Whither the Welfare State, and the forthcoing Capitalism. He was awared a CBE in 1983 
Dr. Robert Lefever - "The Failure of the National Health Service"
Dr. Robert Lefever is a former Liberal Party parliamentary candidate. He left the NHSto establish the PROMIS Unit of Primary Care - the only PROMIS Unit in the UK. He is a frequent broadcaster and writer on medical issues.
Robert Poole - "Defending a Free Society: A Libertarian Perspective"
Robert Poole is one of America's leading libertarian activists. The author and editor of numerous essays, monographs and books, including Cutting Back City Hall, he is President of the Reason Foundation and Editor of Reason magazine
Professor Joachim Maitre - "Isolationism: Making the World Safe for Communism"
Former Editor of the influential German daily newspaer Die Welt, Joachim Maitre is Professor of International Relations at Boston University and a former National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has written prolificly on issues of foreign policy, defence and international security
Professor Ljubo Sirc & George Miller - "The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: Problems and Prospects for Change"
A former member of Yugoslavia wartime resistance to the Nazis and then imprisoned by the Communists for "crimes against the state", Ljubo Sirc is Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of many books, including Communist Economies Under Change, Can Workers Manage?, Economic Devolution in Eastern Europe, Outline of International Finance and The Yugoslav Economy Under Self-Management
George Miller is former Senior Vice-Chairman of the Young Liberals, former Senior Research Officer of the Institute for European Defense and Strategic Studies, Secretary of the East European Sub-Committee of the Foreign Affairs Panel of the Liberal Party, and Editor of Soviet Labour Review. He is also British Representative of NTS, the heroic anti-Soviet resistance organisation, whose activist Valery Senderov was recently jailed in the USSR for documenting Communist anti-semitism
Brian Crozier - "Foreign Policy and Freedom"
Brian Crozier is one of Britain's leading experts on defence and foreign policy. He is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Conflict and the author of many books, incliding The Minimum State, A Theory of Conflict, The Rebels, Neo-Colonialism, The Future of Communist Power, Socialism Explained, Strategy of Survival, The Struggle for the Third World and The War Called Peace
Mark Rogers - "Myths About Jews, Lies About Israel: A Libertarian Analysis of the 'Jewish Problem'"
Mark Rogers is a Libertarian Alliance writer
Dr. Rhodes Boyson, MP - A Special Reception 
Formerly a member of the Labour Party, Dr. Rhodes Boyson is now a Conservative MP and Secretary of State for Social Security in the present Conservative Government. A highly successful former schoolmaster he is also a long-standing associate of the Institute of Economic Affairs and author of many articles and books, including The Ashworth Cotton Enterprise and Centre Forward: A Radical Conservative Programme, He also edited Right Turn and 1985: An Escape from Orwell's 1984
Bill Foster - "The Libertarian Movement in Australia"
Bill Foster is an Australian libertarian activist
Bill Webster - "Men of Liberty, Men of Peace: An Historical Perspective on Non-Violence in the Libertarian Heritage"
Harry Pollard - "Why Classical Liberalism Was Bound to Fail"
Harry Pollard is a former Chairman of London's Young Liberals, former member of the National Council of the Liberal Party, a Liberal Party parliamentary candidate, and Editor of of the national magazine of liberal opinion, The Radical. He is currently President of the Henry George School in Los Angeles, and recently addressed the American Association for the Advancenent of Science
Dr. Chris R. Tame, Harry Pollard, Dr. Camille Castorina, & Dr. Nigel Ashford - "Panel Discussion: Why Did Classical Liberalism Fail?"
Dr. Stephen Davies - "Reclaiming the Levellers From Socialism: Radical Individualism in the English Civil War"
Dr. Stephen Davies is Lecturer in History at Manchester Pollytechnic and has contributed to a number of scholarly journals, including Economic Affairs, and such symposia as Crime and the Law
Dr. Roy Douglas - "Did Classical Liberalism Fail?: The Historical View"
A former Liberal Party parliamentary candidate, Dr. Roy Douglas is currently Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Surrey. He is the author of many influential scholarly books, including A History of the Liberal Party, Land, People and Politics: A History of the Land Question in the UK, 1878-1952, The Advent of War, 1939-40, and In the Year of Munich
Brian Micklethwait - "Liberty and Success", 25 November, 1984

Robert Miller - "Keynes and the Total(itarian) State", 16 December, 1984
Robert Miller is Researcher at the Institute for Economic Affairs and Consultant Economist to the London International Finance Futures Exchange. He is the author of a number of books, includingInterest Rate Returns in Britain, Measuring the Money Supply, State Forestry For the Axe, Exchange Control for Ever and What Price Unemployment?

1985

Professor Bryan Niblett - "Data Protection in Britain", 27 January, 1985
Bryan Niblet is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wales, a practising Barrister, Chairman of the Law Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, and a member of the Council of Europe's Expert Committee on Legal Data Processing. He is also author of Legal Protection of Computer Programmes and The Data Protection Act of 1984

Douglas Eden - "Liberty and the British Constitution", 26 February, 1985
Douglas Eden is one of the principal founders of the Social Democratic Party and a member of its governing council. He is also Senior Lecturer in History at Middlesex Polytechnic and has contributed to a wide range of political and scholarly journals, including Encounter and Policy Review. He is also the author of Political Change in Europe and The Future of Social Democracy

Howard Gray - "Information or Education?", 28 April, 1985
Howard Gray is a practising Barrister. He has contribted to The Law Society Gazette and to the Adam Smith Institute's Omega Report on Justice Policy

Andre Spies - "From Anarcho-Psychology to the Freenetwork", 23 May, 1985
A libertarian opponent of apartheid Andre Spies left South Africa to live in Belgium. He is the author of two books on the psychology of self-liberation, Meta-Information and Newspeak

Teresa Gorman - "Unemployment: De-Regulation as a Solution", 26 May, 1985
Teresa Gorman is Chairman of the Alliance of Small Firms and Self-Employed People (ASP) and a Conservative Councillor for Westminster. She appears frequently on TV and radio and writes regularly for The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail. She is also author of Worried to Death for the Centre for Policy Studies.

Alan Lewis - "Irrationalism, Evolution and Ideology", 30 June, 1985
Alan Lewis is currently completing his MSC at Brunel University and has contributed to such journals as Nature, New Scientist and the socialist journal Chartist.

George Watson - "The Conservative Contradiction", 4 July, 1985
George Watson is a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and a distinguished advocate of contemporary classical liberalism. A leading literary critic and scholar, his books and monographs  include The Story of the Novel, The English Ideology, Politics and Literature in Modern Britain, Is Socialism Left? and the forthcoming The Idea of Liberalism

Four Day Conference - The International Symposium of the Open Society, Queen's College, Cambridge University - "The Open Society and the Future", 25-29 July, 1985
LA Director Dr. Chris R. Tame is one of the organisers of this conference and he, and other LA supporters, spoke at this Conference

Peter Stremes - "Free Market Radio: History and Prospects", 28 July, 1980
Peter Stremes is Station Co-ordinator for the pirate station Radio Jackie. Former Chairman of the Scottish Federation of Conservative Students, he is a regular bradcaster and has contributed to such journals as Marketing and Broadcast

Brian Micklethwait - "Arguing About Economics", 25 August, 1985
David Hart - "Benjamin Constant on Ancient and Modern Liberty: A Libertarian Introduction", 27 October, 1985
David Hart is currently a student at King's College, Oxford, has written for The Journal of Libertarian Studies, and is Editor of The Humane Studies Review for the Institute of Humane Studies.

Dr. Kenneth  Minogue - "The Pure Theory of Ideology", 24 November, 1985
Dr. Kenneth Minogue is Reader in Political Science at the London School of Economics and the author of many scholarly essays and books, including The Liberal Mind, The Idea of the University, Nationalism, and, most recently, The Pure Theory of Ideology.

Dr. Nigel Ashford - "The New Class: A Libertarian Analysis", 15 December, 1985
Dr. Nigel Ashford is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Strathclyde. Formerly Secretary General of the European Democrat Students he has also contributed to a number of academic journals, including Government and Opposition, Salisbury Review, Dilog (Norway) and Tidskriften Heimdal (Sweden)

1986

One Day Conference - "Which Way Western Foreign Policy?", 19 April, 1986
Dr. David Hoile, Conference Chairman
Dr. David Hoile is Senior Vice Chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students
Professor David R. Regan, Jiliian Becker, Dr. Nigel Ashford - "Panel: Is There a Western Foreign Policy?"
David R. Regan is Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham. A Committee Member of Peace Through NATO, he is the author of many books, monographs and scholarly essays
Jillian Becker is a distinguished novelist, anti-apartheid exponent, and author of Hitler's Children, a study of the terrorist group the Baader Meinhoff Red Army Fraction, and The PLO
Dr. Nigel Ashford is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Strathclyde. Formerly Secretary General of the European Democrat Students he has also contributed to a number of academic and political journals, including Government and Opposition, Salisbury Review, Dilog (Norway) and Tidskriften Heimdal (Sweden)
Gerald Frost - "The Soviet Threat"
Gerry Frost is former Director of the Centre for Policy Studies and currently Director of the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies. He is co-author of Protest and Perish:  Critique of Unilateralism
Bun-Nu Chea - "Kampuchea and South East Asia"
Bub-Ni Chea is Head of the London Office of the Kamuchean Peoples National Libertaion Front
Marcus Samondo - "Angola: The Struggle Continues"
Marcus Samondo is Western European Representative of UNITA, the anti-communist liberation movement in Angola

Two Day Conference - Centre for Atlantic and European Education in Economics - "The Ideas of a Free Society", 3-4 July, 1986
LA Director Dr. Chris R. Tame is one of the organisers of the Conference, and LA supporters were amongst the speakers

One Day Conference - "Freedom and Sociology", 19 July, 1986
Dr. David Levy - "Sociology and the Limits of Freedom"
Dr. David Levy is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Middlesex Polytechnic. He has contributed to a wide range of scholarly and political publications, including Philosophy Today, Modern Age and The American Spectator. He is also the author of Realism: An Essay in the Interpretation of Social Reality
Patricia Morgan - "Sociology and Concepts of Individualism and Collectivism"
Patricia Morgan is the author of Child Care: Sense and Fable and Delinquent Fantasies and a contributor to two recent Social Affairs Unit publications, Criminal Welfare on Trial and Family Portraits 
Dr. Dennis O'Keeffe - "Skill Formation, Human Capital and Freedom"
Dr. Dennis O'Keeffe is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the Polytechnic of North London. He has contributed to many political and scholarly journals, including Encounter and Salisbury Review. He has also contributed to the Social Affairs Unit anthologies The Kindness That Kills and The Pied Pipers of Education, is co-author of Education and Indoctrination and Editor of The Wayward Curriculum
Professor David Marsland - "The Enemy Within: Sociological Prejudice Against Freedom"
David Marsland is Professor of Sociology at Brunel University. He is Assistant Director of the Social Affairs Unit, a member of the UNESCO Social Sciences Board and of the Academic Council for Peace and Freedom, and a past member of the Executive Committee of the British Sociological Association. He is also the author of many scholarly essays and publications, including Neglect and Betrayal: War and Violence in Modern Sociology

One Day Conference - "Censorship, Free Speech and Pornography", 9 August, 1986
Bill Thmopson - "The Moral Right: Ideology and Campaigns"
Bill Thompson is a part-time Lecturer and is currently completing his PhD on the "moral Majority" at the University of Essex
Ted Goodman - "Censorsorship: The Current Legal Position and the Campaign for Freedom of Speech"
Ted Goodman is a Solicitor and Legal Advisor to the National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Act (NCROPA). He is a member of the Society of Labour Lawyers and the National Council for Civil liberties, has contributed to a number of publications, including The Free Thinker, and is co-author of the forthcoming book Britain: An Unfree country
Professor Christie Davies - "How Our Rulers Argue bout Censorship: An Exercise in Prejudice and Fallacy"
Christie Davies is Professor of Sociology at the University of Reading. He is the author of many scholarly essays and of such books as Permissive Britain: Social Change in the 60s and 70s, Wrongful Imprisonment and The Reactionary Jokebook
Antony Grey - "Censorship: Why?"
Antony Grey is a former Executive Committee member of the National Council of Civil Liberties and of the Defence of Literature and the Arts Society (now the Campaign Against Censorship) and is Chairman of the Sexual Law Reform Society.  As Secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society he was one of the pioneer campaigners for the abolition of legal discrimination against homosexuality achieved by the 1967 Sexual Offences Act
Mary Hayward - "Whores and Mothers: Ideas on Women and Censorship"
Mary Hayward is Honorary Secretary of the Campaign Against Censorship

Dagny Sharon - "A Seminar on Women and Liberty" (Joint Libertarian Allance and British Association of Libertarian Feminists Meeting), 28 August, 1986
Dagny Sharon is a successful American businesswoman. She is North American reprrsentative of the FreeNetwork and is one of the founders of the Women's Liberty Network. She has also hosted a five-part TV seroes, "Liberty on Air", and produced a number of plays, including Ayn Rand's "Night of January 16th" and George Orwell's "Animal Farm"

One Day Conference - "Feminism, Socialism and Libertarianism" (Joint Libertarian Alliance and British Association of Libertarian Feminists Meeting), 14 September, 1986
Teresa Gorman - "Women and Employment"
Teresa Gorman is Chairman of the Alliance of Small Firms and Self-Employed People (ASP) and a Conservative Councillor for Westminster. She appears frequently on TV and radio and writes regularly for The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail. She is also author of Worried to Death for the Centre for Policy Studies.
Dr. Stephen Davies - "The Libertarian Feminist Heritage"
Dr. Stephen Davies is Lecturer in History at Manchester Pollytechnic and has contributed to a number of scholarly journals, including Economic Affairs, and such symposia as Crime and the Law
Jillian Becker, Christine Chapman, Mary Kenny & Judy Tame - "The Bankruptcy of Socialist Feminism: A Panel Discussion"
Jillian Becker is a distinguished novelist, anti-apartheid exponent, and author of Hitler's Children, a study of the terrorist group the Baader Meinhoff Red Army Fraction, The PLO, and The Soviet Connection: The State Sponsorship of Terrorism. She is also President of the recently established Institute for the Study of Terrorism
Christine Chapmen is a television jounalist curremtly working for Chanel 4's "Diverse Reports"
Mary Kenny has been a leading Fleet Street journalist for 20 years. She is currently columnist for The Daily Telegraph and is the author of a number of books
Judy Tame has worked for the Association of Slf-Employed People, the Economic League and the World Jewish Congress. She has also contributed to such scholarly and political journals as Reason Papers, Free Life and The Free Nation

Gerge Hay - "Applied Science Fiction", 30 October, 1986
George Hay is Secrtary of the H. G. Wells Society and a leading Science Fiction author and editor. His recent anthologies include Hell Hath Fury, The Disappearing Future, Stopwatch and The Edward De Bono SF Collection. He is also the principal founder of the worlds's only academic establishment devoted to the study of SF, the Science Fiction Foundation at the North East London Polytechnic

Tony Hollick - "Lifting the Nuclear Shadow", 27 November, 1986
Tony Hollick is software designer and is currently Editor of the LA's journal Free Life

Peter Clarke - "Radical Privatisation", Special Fringe Meeting at the Conservative Party Conference, 10 October, 1986
Peter Clarke is Conservative Party parliamentary candidate for East Lothian. He is Campaign Director of PULSE (the campaign for efficiency in local government services) and a radio and television journalist and presenter who has worked for BBC Radio Scotland, LBC, and Channel 4's "Diverse Reports". He has also written extensively for the national press.

Chris Cooper - "The Ethics of Libertarianism", 18 December, 1986
Chris Cooper is an editor with a major London publishing house.

One Day Conference - "Women and Success" (Joint Libertarian Alliance and British Association of Libertarian Feminists Meeting), 20 December, 1986
Leah Hettz - "Successful Women"
Leah Hertz is a successful entrepreneur. She is Visiting Fellow at the City University Business School, a Fellow of the British Institute of Management, and Vice-President of the Small Business Bureau. She is also author the recent successful book The Business Amazons
Jinny Ditzler - "Making Things Happen in Your Life"
Jinny Ditzler is the founder and Managing Director of Results Unlimited, a training company in success attitudes and techniques
Judy Tame - "Women: Winners or Losers?"
Judy Tame has worked for the Association of Self-Employed People, the Economic League and the World Jewish Congress. She has also contributed to such scholarly and political journals as Reason Papers, Free Life and The Free Nation

1987

No meetings organised

1988

Three Day Conference - "Liberty '88: The Annual Conference on Freedom and the Open Society", 30 September - 2 October, 1988
The LA's Director Dr. Chris R. Tame is one of the organisers of this conference, and LA supporters was amongst the speakers

1989

Michael Grossberg - "The Struggle for Free Speech", 21 June, 1989
Michael Grossberg is a leading American campaigner for free speech. He is Director of the Free Press Association, which defends and promotes free speech, organises conferences and grants the noted Mencken Awards for contributions to civil libertarian scholarship and journalism

Three Day Conference - "Liberty '89: The Annual Conference on Freedom and the Open Society", 21-23 July, 1989
The LA's Director Dr. Chris R. Tame was one of the organisers of this conference, and LA supporters were be amongst the speakers

Dr. David Friedman - "The Case For and Against Anarchism: An Economist's View", 26 July, 1989
Dr. David Friedman is author of The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, Price Theory: An Introductory Text, and Laissez Faire in Population: The Least Bad Solution, He has contributed to many scholarly journals, including The Journal of Legal Studies, The International Review of Law and Economics, The Journal of Political Economy, Public Choice and The Journal of Economic Theory

1990

Arthur Seldon, CBE - "Special Signing Session and Seminar on Arthur Seldon's Latest Book, Capitalism", 2 July, 1990

One Day Conference - "Racism and Anti-Racism: Liberal Perspectives", 25 August, 1990
Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Racism as the Lowest Form of Collectivism: On the Ideological Nature of Racism"
Glory Osaji-Umeaku - "Contradictions in British Race Relations Law"
Glory Osaji-Umeaku is a journalist and Editor of Ethnic Enterprise News and co-founder of the recently established Ethnic Harmony Campaign. He is also author of Britain's Ethnic Policy: How Democratic?
Russell Lewis - "Anti-Racism as Racism"
Russell Lewis is a leader writer for The Daily Mail. He is the author of many books, including The New Service Society, Margaret Thatcher: A Personal and Political Biography, Tony Benn: A Critical Biography, Rome or Brussels, Anti-Racism: A Mania Exposed, and co-author pf Apartheid: Capitalism or Socialism? 
Professor Antony Flew - "Three Concepts of Racism"
Antony Flew is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of a huge number of scholarly essays and books, including An Introduction to Western Philosophy, Hume's Philosophy of Belief, Crime or Disease?, The Idea of God, God and Philosophy, Sociology, Equality and Education, Thinking About Thinking, Thinking About Social Thinking, The Politics of Procrustes, and Equality in Liberty in Justice

One Day Conference - "Education and Liberty", 17 November, 1990
Brian Micklethwait - "The Contradictions of Progressive Education"
Dr. Dennis O'Keeffe - "The Case Against Compulsory State Education"
Dr. Dennis O'Keeffe is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the Polytechnic of North London. He has contributed to many political and scholarly journals, including Encounter and Salisbury Review. He has contributed to the Social Affairs Unit anthologies The Kindness That Kills, The Pied Pipers of Education, and The Wayward Elite, is co-author of Education and Indoctrination and Editor of The Wayward Curriculum
Katie Ivens - "Should We De-nationalise the Curriculum?"
Katie Ivens is Chairman of both the London Good Schools Campaign and of the Ethnic Harmony Campaign, and is on the Committee of the Campaign for Real Education.  A former journalist, she is an experienced school governor and Westminster City Councillor, serving on its Education Committee
Ken Naylor - "Parental Rights in Education"
Ken Naylor is Honorary Secretary of the Parental Alliance for Choice in Education, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies. He is author of a number of books, including The School Above the Pub, Crisis in the Sixth Form and Technical Schools: A Tale of Four Countries, He has also written for The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Times Educational Supplement

One Day Conference - "Social Theory and Freedom", 1 December, 1990
Dr. Stephen Davies - "Moral Economy Versus the Rational Peasant"
Dr. Stephen Davies is Lecturer in History at Manchester Polytechnic and has contributed to a number of scholarly journals, including Economic Affairs, and such symposia as Crime and the Law
Brian Micklethwait - "Emmanual Todd and the Revolution in Anthropology"
Marc-Henri Glendining - "The New Times Thesis: Post-Modernism and Social Theory"
Marc-Henri Glendening is a former Chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students. He has contributed to a number of books, including The 'New Right' Enlightenment, and has personally campaigned in South Africa against apartheid socialism

1991

One Day Conference - "Foreign Policy and Freedom", 9 February, 1991
Dr. David Hoile - "Freedom and the Armed Struggle"
Dr. David Hoile is a former Senior Vice Chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students and a writer and consultant on foreign policy issues. His books and monographs include Nicaragua for Beginners, Mozambique: A Nation in Crisis, and Understanding Sanctions. He has comtributed to a number of publications, including Salisbury Review, The World and I and South African Freedom Review
Nigel Morgan - "British Sovereignty and European Federalism" 
Nigel Morgan a prominent member of the Bruges Group and former assistant to the Director of Studies for Policy Studies. He is currently working with Professor Norman Stone in setting up a School for European Studies
Brian Crozier - "Has the Soviet Threat Disappeared?"
Brian Crozier is one of Britain's leading experts on defence and foreign policy. He is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Conflict and the author of many books, including The Minimum State, A Theory of Conflict, The Rebels, Neo-Colonialism, The Future of Communist Power, Socialism Explained, Strategy of Survival, The Struggle for the Third World and The War Called Peace
Dr. Sean Gabb - "Can Islam Threaten the West?"

One Day Conference - "Social Theory and Freedom II", 23 March, 1991
Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Towards a Libertarian Criminology"
Professor Peeter Saunders - "Citizenship, the State and the Market"
Peter Saunders is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex. He is the author of many books, including Social Theory and the Urban Question, Urban Politics:  A Sociological Interpretation, An Introduction to British Politics, Property, Paternalism and Power, Social Class and Stratification, and A Nation of Home Owners
Dr. Dennis O'Keeffe - "Left and Right: An Outmoded Vocabulary"
Dr. Dennis O'Keeffe is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the Polytechnic of North London. He has contributed to many political and scholarly journals, including Encounter and Salisbury Review. He has contributed to the Social Affairs Unit anthologies The Kindness That Kills, The Pied Pipers of Education, and The Wayward Elite, is co-author of Education and Indoctrination and Editor of The Wayward Curriculum
Dr. Stephen Davies - "Towards a Remoralisation of Society"
Dr. Stephen Davies is Lecturer in History at Manchester Pollytechnic and has contributed to a number of scholarly journals, including Economic Affairs, and such symposia as Crime and the Law

One Day Conference - "Libertarianism and Conservatism: Agreements and Disagreements", 27 April, 1991
Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Conservatism: A Libertarian Analysis"
Brian Micklethwait & Philip Vander Elst - "Libertarianism Versus Conservatism: A Debate"
Philip Vander Elst is Editor of Freedom Today. He has contributed to numerous scholarly and political journals, including Government and Opposition, The Spectator, The American Spectator, and The Daily Telegraph. He is also the author of Capitalist Technology for Soviet Survival and Idealism Without Illusions: A Foreign Policy For Freedom
Professor John Burton - "How Free Market Was Thatcherism?"
Formerly Professor of Economics at Leeds Polytechnic Dr. John Burton was recently appointed Director of the Centre for Business Economics at the European Business School. His books include Wage Inflation, The Job Support Machine, The Consequences of Mr. Keynes, Picking Losers: The Political Economy of Industrial Policy, Trade Unions and Society, The Trojan Horse: Union Power in British Politics and The Subsidy Morass
Dr. Sean Gabb - "Social, Sexual and Civil Liberties Under the Conservatives"

One Day Conference - "In Defence of Israel", 25 May, 1991
Martin Savitt - "The Arab Boycott and the Obstacles to Trade With Israel"
Martin Savitt is Chairman of the Anti-Boycott Committee of the British-Israel Chamber of Commerce
John Marshall, MP - "Israel and the West"
Former Member of the European Parliament for North London and Secretary of the Friendship With Israel Group, John Marshall is currently Conservative MP for Hendon South. 
Jillian Becker - "The PLO and the Continuing Threat to Israel"
Jillian Becker is a distinguished novelist, anti-apartheid exponent, and author of Hitler's Children, a study of the terrorist group the Baader Meinhoff Red Army Fraction, The PLO, and The Soviet Connection: The State Sponsorship of Terrorism. She is also President of the Institute for the Study of Terrorism
David Jacobs - "Myth and Reality in Palestine"
David Jacobs is a prominent member of the Jordan Is Palestine Committee

One Day Conference - "Dismantling the Welfare State", 6 July, 1991
Dr. Nigel Ashhford - "Dismantling the Welfare State"
Dr. Nigel Ashford is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Strathclyde. Formerly Secretary General of the European Democrat Students he has also contributed to a number of academic journals, including Government and Opposition, Salisbury Review, Dilog (Norway) and Tidskriften Heimdal (Sweden)
Professor David Gladstone - "The Welfare State in Historical Perspective; A Second Look"
Professor David Gladstone is Reader in the History of Social Policy at Bristol University as well as Visiting Professor in Human Service Studies at Cornell University. He has contributed to many scholarly journals, including Social Policy and Administration, The Journal of Social Policy, The Journal of International Comparative Welfare and The National Civic Review

One Day Conference - "In Defence of Ulster", 28 September, 1991
Ailstair Cooke, OBE - "Ulster: The Origins of the Problem"
Alistair Cooke is a former Lecturer in British and Irish History at Queens University, Belfast. He is co-author of The Governing Passion, and has contributed to a wide range of academic journals and newspapers. He is currently Deputy Director of the Conservative Research Department and is a Trustee of Friends of the Union
Sir Patrick Macory - "Fifty Years of Misrule?: An Examination of the Stormont Record and the 'Civil Rights' Movement of the 1960s"
Sir Patrick Macory is  a former Director of Uniliver and was Chairman of the Review Body on Local Government in Northern Ireland. He is author of Signal Catastrophe: The Afghan War, 1839-1842 and The Siege of Derry, as well as having contributed to many academic historical journals. He is also a Trustee of Friends of the Union
Ken Maginnis MP - "Ulster Security: An Update"
Formerly a financial consultant and a Major in the Ulster Defence Regiment, Ken Maginnis became MP for Formanagh and Tyrone in 1983. He is Ulster Unionist Party Security Spokesman and a member of the Parliamentary Defence Select Committee
Dr. Hugh Roberts - "Equal Citizenship and the Political Parties in Northern Ireland"
Dr Hugh Roberts is Research Fellow in Political Science at Sussex University and the author of numerous essays and the book Northern Ireland and the Algerian Analogy.  A member of the Labour Party, he is also Secretary of the Bevin Society, a group committed to new directions in socialist politics, and Chairman of the British Section of the Campaign for Equal Citizenship for Northern Ireland

One Day Conference - "On Children's Rights", 30 November, 1991 (video here)
Professor David Gladstone - "Childhood in History"
Professor David Gladstone is Reader in the History of Social Policy at Bristol University as well as Visiting Professor in Human Service Studies at Cornell University. He has contributed to many scholarly journals, including Social Policy and Administration, The Journal of Social Policy, The Journal of International Comparative Welfare and The National Civic Review
Dr. Bill Thompson - "Social Workers, Children's Freedom and Moral Panics"
Dr. Bill Thompsn is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Reading. He is the author of a number of scholarly papers on criminology and the sociology of moral panics and religious fundamentalism
Teresa Gorman, MP - "Empowering Children"
Teres Gorman is Conservative MP for Billericay. Formerly a successful businesswoman and the founder of the Association for Small Business and the Self-Employed, she writes extensively for the press and appears regularly on TV and radio.   She has contributed to such books as The Case for Private Enterprise, The Omega Papers, and Trespassing, and is the author of a number of books and monographs, including Minimum Wage Laws and Small Firms, The Enterprise Culture, Business Still Burdened, Chickengate and Worried to 
Death
Ian Smedley - "'Youth Rights' and the Youth Industry in Britain and Europe"
Ian Smedley is former Chairman of Conservative Students. He is the author of a number of pamphlets and has contributed to The Journal of Banking and Financial History

1992

One Day Conference - "The Changing Face of Eastern Europe", 22 February, 1992
Dr. Tim Evans - "Czechoslovakia Now"
Dr. Tim Evans was, until recently, the Chief Economic and Political Advisor to the Slovakian Prime Minister. He has been a public policy researcher with the Adam Smith Institute, for which he has written and edited a number of publications, and is currently Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies.
Dr. Ljubo Sirc - "Eastern Europe: A General Economic and Political Overview"
A former member of Yugoslavia's wartime resistance to the Nazis and then imprisoned by the Communists for "crimes against the state", Ljubo Sirc is Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of many books, including Communist Economies Under Change, Can Workers Manage?, Economic Devolution in Eastern Europe, Outline of International Finance amd The Yugoslav Economy Under Self-Management
Dr. Drago Stambuk - "The Cause of Free Croatia"
Dr. Drago Stanbuk is a poet and the official representative in the United Kingdom of the Government of Croatia
Dr. Jonathan Ayres - "Reform in Russia: Unantagonistic Contradictions?"
Dr. Jonathanm Ayres is a Lecturer in Russian Government at the London School of Economics, having formerly been Research Fellow at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies. He is co-author of the forthcoming book New Political Movements in Eastern Europe

One Day Conference - "Psychology and Freedom", 5 April, 1992
Dr. Chris R. Tame - "The Ideological Importance of Psychology and of Psychological Liberation"
Judy Tame - "Psychology: Medicine or Philosophy?"
Judy Tame is Director of Lifeplan, an organisation which helps people develop their own personal philosophies of life and start impelmenting them. She formerly worked for the Association of Self-Employed and Small Business, the World Jewish Congress and the Economic League. She is a successful businesswoman and is currently a Partner in the J. Rothschild Partnership. Her articles have appeared in Reason Papers, Free life and The Free Nation, and she is Chairman of the (British) Association of Libertarian Feminists, a member of the Society for Existential Analysis, the Institute of Business Counsellors, the Association for Management Education and Development, and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors
Professor Windy Dryden - "Free to Be Crazy: How to Make Yourself Emotionally Disturbed and Resist the Efforts of Psychotherapists to Help You"
Dr. Windy Dryden is Professor of Counselling at Goldsmith's College. One of the UK's most prolific writers on pysychology and therapy, he is the author of over fifty books, including Individual Therapy: A Handbook, Daring to Be Myself amd The Big Sulk
Dr. Peter Breggin - "Psychiatry as a Totalitarian Institution" 
One of the USA's leading humanistic psychologists, Dr. Peter Breggin is Director of the Centre for the Study of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He is the author of The Crazy From the Sane, After the Good War, Psychiatric Drugs: Hazards to the Brain, Electroshock: Its Brain Disabling Effects, The Psychology of Freedom and Toxic Psychiatry

One Day Conference - "Gay Rights and Freedom", 11 April, 1992
Matthew Parris - "Gay Rights: A Meaningful Concept?"
Matthew Parris, a former Conservative MP, is now a leading broadcaster and journalist. He has been presenter of ITV's "Weekend World" and is currently a regular writer and Parliamentary Correspondent for The Times. His latest book is So Far, So Good: Selected Pieces
Ronald Aitken - "Being Out, Libertarian and Conservative"
Ronald Aitken is a Conservative Party Concillor in Harringay, and former Deputy Leader of the Conservative group therein. A former administrator of an HIV clinic in North London his sexual orientation was used against him by Labour Party opponents in council elections
Peter Tatchell & Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Gay Rights: Two Views"
Peter Tatchell is a former Labout Party parliamentary candidate (who suffered a virulently hostile campaign against himself by local Conservatives). He is the author of many books and esays, including works on non-nuclear defense and AIDS. Britain's most prominent gay activist he is one of the leaders of the "Outrage" campaign
Dr. Sean Gabb - "The Origin and History of Anti-Homosexual Legislation in Britain" 

Special Seminar: Michelle Marder Kamhi - "Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Art: A Critical Discussion", 4 June, 1992
Michelle Marder Kamhi is co-editor, with her husband Louis Torres, of Aristos: The Journal of Aesthetics. A former Editor for Columbia University Press, she has written, produced and directed an award-winning documentary, and has written for American Education, Education Week and Current Biography

One Day Conference - "Europe and Freedom", 11 July, 1992
Philp Vander Elst - "Resisting Leviathan: The Case Against the European State"
Philip Vander Elst is Editor of Freedom Today. He has contributed to numerous scholarly and political journals, including Government and Opposition, The Spectator, The American Spectator, and The Daily Telegraph. He is also the author of Capitalist Technology for Soviet Survival, Idealism Without Illusions: A Foreign Policy For Freedom and, most recently, Resisting Leviathan: The Case Against the European State
Sir Nicholas Budgen, MP - "Diversity in Currency: The Case Agaist Forced Exchange Rates and Monetary Union"
Sir Nicholas Budgen is Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West. A distunguished Parliamentarian, he has served on the Select Committee on the Treasury and the Civil Service, the Public Accounts Committee and the Conservative Finance Committee. He also writes extensively in the press
Sir Richad Body, MP - "Farming in the Clouds: A Critique of European and National Agricultural Policies"
Sir Richard Body is a Conservative MP, a prolific author, and Britain's leading critic of statist agricultural policies and their economic and environmenmtal consequences. He was co-editor pf Freedom and Stability in the World Economy and author of The Architect and the Law, Agriculture: The Triumph and the Shame, Farming in the Clouds, and Red or Green for Farmers?
Professor Antony Flew - "Delors and Procrustes: The New European 'Social' Agenda and the Threat to Freedom"
Antony Flew is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of a huge number of scholarly essays and books, including An Introduction to Western Philosphy, Hume's Philosophy of Belief, Crime or Disease?, The Idea of God, God and Philosophy, A Rational Animal?, Sociology, Equality and Education, Thinking About Thinking, Thinking About Social Thinking, The Politics of Procrustes, and Equality in Liberty in Justice

Special Seminar - Jacob G. Hornberger, "Libertarianism: Hope for the Future", 23 July, 1992
Formerly a lawyer and Lecturer in Law at the University of Dallas, Jacob Hornberger was, from 1987 to 1989, Programme Director at the Foundation for Economic Education. He is the Founder and President of the Future of Freedom Foundation, which organises conferences and publishes Freedom Daily

One Day Conference - "Environmentalism: The Threat to Freedom", 26 Sepember, 1992
Robett Whelan - "Is There Really an Environmenmtal Crisis?: A Critique of 'Scientific' Arguments"
Robert Whelan is Director of the Committee on Population and the Economy and has written and broadcast extensively on population and environmental topics. He has produced a series of videos on social and medical issues, including Facing Facts on Population, The Great Population Hoax and The Truth About AIDS. He is also the author of Mounting Greenery: A Short View of the Green Phenomenon and writes regularly for Economic Affairs
Professor Donald Denman - "The Politicisation of the Environment"
Donald Denman is Emeritus Professor of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. His numerous books include Markets Under the Sea?, Land in the Market, Land Use and the Constitution of Property, Land in a Free Society, The Place of Property, Survival and Respnsibility, After Government Failure and Planning Fails the Inner Cities
Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Enemies of Humanity: A Moral and Philosophical Critique of the Greens"
Victoria Edwards - "Dealing in Diversity: The Market for Nature Conservation"
Victoria Edwards is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Land and Construction Management at Portsmouth Polytechnic. She has contributed to The Journal of Environmental Management and Property Management

Special Seminar - Robert Arne, "The Late 19th Century Individualists: An Assessment", 21 October, 1992
Robert Arme has just completed his Doctorate on Herbert Spencer at the University of  Oxford. A graduate of the University of Chicago he was also Editor of The Objectivist Scholar and has contributed to The Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography

On Day Conference - "AIDS: Dissenting Voices", 28 November, 1992
Professor Gordon Stewart - "AIDS: Problems of Causation and Control" 
Gordon Stewart is Emeritis Professor of Public Health at the University of Glasgow and a consultant on AIDS to the World Health Organisation. The author of over 100 journal artices and contributions to symposia as well as such books as Trends in Epidemiology and The Penicillin Group of Drugs. His own accurate assessments on the epidemiology of AIDS were ignored by the goverment and health authorites in favour of propaganadistic junk science.
Jad Adams - "A Short History of HIV"
Jad Adams is a journalist, author and television producer. He is the author of AIDS: The HIV Myth and, most recemtly, Tony Bemn: A Biography. His 1987 TV documentary, AIDS: The Unheard Voices received the Royal Television Society Award for the best International Current Affairs Documentary. He has also contributed to many journals and magazines, including New Scientist, The Listener, The Lancet and The British Medical Journal
Dr. James LeFanu - "The Misrepresentation of AIDS Statistics"
Dr. James LeFanu is a general practioner and medical columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. He has contributed to such books as Health, Lifestyle and Environment: Countering the Panic, A Diet of Reason: Sense and Nonsense in the Healthy Eating Debate, and is author of Eat Your Heart Out and Healthwise. He has contributed to many journals and magazines, including The British Medical Journal, The Lancet, New Scientist and The Listener
Susil Gupta - "The AIDS Fraud"
Susil Gupta is Lecture in Economics at the City of London Polytechinic and at Birkbeck College. He is Editor of Analysis, an independent Marxist review. His recent essay, "The AIDS Fraud", attracted widespread media attention
Robert Whelan - "The AIDS Establishment: A Public Choice Economics Analysis"
Robert Whelan is Director of the Committee on Population and the Economy and has written and broadcast extensively on population and environmental topics. He has produced a series of videos on social and medical issues, including Facing Facts on Population, The Great Population Hoax and The Truth About AIDS. He is also the author of Mounting Greenery: A Short View of the Green Phenomenon, Choices in Childbearing,  and writes regularly for Economic Affairs
Jason Annetts - "Surviving the Holocaust: AIDS, Victimology and the Myth of the Backlash"
Jason Annets is a postgraduate researcher in sociology at the University of Reading. He is co-author of "Dangerous Activisms" in Ken Plummer's Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Gay and Lesbian Experience and (with Dr. Bill Thompson), Soft Core: A Content Analysis of Legally Available Poronography. His paper "Guilt by Association", delivered to the Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference this year, is due to be published shortly in Paidika

1993

Special Seminar - Dr. Peter Breggin, "Against Toxic Psychiatry", 17 March, 1993
One of the USA's leading humanistic psychologists, Dr. Peter Breggin is Director of the Centre for the Study of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He is the author of The Crazy From the Sane, After the Good War, Psychiatric Drigs: Hazards to the Brain, Electroshock: Its Brain Disabling Effects, The Psychology of Freedom and Toxic Psychiatry

One Day Conference - "The State of the Nation: Current Policy Issues From a Libertarian Perspective", 24 April, 1993
Simon McIlwaine, Conference Chairman
Lord Harris of High Cross - "Down With Democracy: The Market Versus the Ballot Box", 
Formerly Lecturer in Political Economy at St. Andrew University, Ralph Harris founded the influential Institute of Economic Affairs in 1957, was its General Director until 1987 and remains its Chaarman. He is also Chairman of FOREST, a Director of The Times and a member of the Council of the University of Buckingham University. He is the author of many articles and books, including Hire Purchase in a Free Society,  Advertising and the Free Society, Choice in Welfare, The End of Government and Pricing or Taxing?
Dr. Barry Bracewell-Milnes - "What Is Wrong With the 1993 Budget?"
Dr. Barry Bracewell-Milnes is one of Britain's leading tax experts and economists. A former Economic Director of the Confederation of British Indistry and Economic Advisor to the Institute of Directors, his many books include The Measurement of Fiscal Policy, Is Capital Taxation Fair?, Tax Avoidance and Evasion, The Taxation of Industry: Fiscal Barriers to the Creation of Wealth and Land and Heritage: The Public Interest in Personal Ownership
John Battalana - "The Big Bang, Financial Services and Banking: Have We Gone Far Enough?"
John Batatlana is a Vice-President and managing credit officer with Merrill Lynch in London. He has also worked for the Chase Manhattan Bank and as  banker in South East Asia. He has also contributed to the Cato Institute's Policy Report
Dr. Dennis O'Keefee - "Education Policy Under the Conservatives"
Dr. Dennis O'Keeffe is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the Polytechnic of North London. He has contributed to many political and scholarly journals, including Encounter and Salisbury Review and to the Social Affairs Unit anthologies The Kindness That Kills, The Pied Pipers of Education, and The Wayward Elite. He is also co-author of Education and Indoctrination and Editor of The Wayward Curriculum

One Day Conference - "Medicine and Freedom", 15 May, 1993
Simon McIlwaine, Conference Chairman
Dr. Mike Goldsmith - "The Supply and Financing of Healthcare: Practical Alternatives to State Provision"
A former NHS General Practitioner Michael Goldsmith has pioneered a number of initiatives in the private sector, including the Harrow Health Centre, Britain's first pre-paid primary care service in 1982. He has been Resrach Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and, since 1986, Director of Medical Services for Medicare, the UK's largest independent healthcare management consultancy
Professor David Gladstone - "The State and the Medical Profession: All Too Easy Bedfellows?"
Professor David Gladstone is Reader in the History of Social Policy at Bristol University as well as Visiting Professor in Human Service Studies at Cornell University. He has contributed to many scholarly journals, including Social Policy and Administration, The Journal of Social Policy, The Journal of International Comparative Welfare and The National Civic Review
Dr. Robert Lefever - "Reforming the NHS: Which Way to the Market?"
Dr. Robert Lefever is a former NHS doctor and the founder of the PROMIS Unit of Primary Care and the PROMIS Addiction Recovery Centre. A frequent broadcaster and writer on medical issues, he is author of The Diary of a Private Doctor, How to Combat Alcoholism and Addiction amd Spirituality for Atheists and Agnostics. His evidence on reforming the NHS has been presented to House of Commons inquiries
David Lucas - "The Political Economy of the Pharmaceutical Industry: Over-Regulaton Versus Health"
Davod Lucas is a Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs Health and Welfare Unit. He is co-author of "Private Welfare in the 1980s" in Social Policy Review and of a forthcoming artice. "The Political Economy of Pharamaceutical Regulation" in The London Policy Review 

One Day Conference - "Perspectives on Hayek", 19 June, 1993
Dr. Eamonn Butler - "The Life and Work of Friedrich Hayek: An Overview (Incorporating the first public showing of the Adam Smith Institute video, 'Hayek'")
Formerly a Research Associate with the US House of Reprsentatives, Dr. Eamonn Butler is a Director of the Adam Smith Institute. He is also the author of many scholarly essays and books, including Forty Centuries of Wages and Price Controls, Hayek: His Contribution to the Political and Economic Thought of Our Time, Ludwig Von Mises: Fountainhead of the Modern Microeconomics Revolution and Milton Friedman: A Guide to His Thought
Dr. Nigel Ashford - "Hayek on the Role of Ideas"
Dr. Nigel Ashford is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Strathclyde. Formerly Secretary General of the European Democrat Students he has also contributed to a number of academic journals, including Government and Opposition, Salisbury Review, Dilog (Norway), Tidskriften Heimdal (Sweden), nd Policy Review. He is also co-editor of the recent Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought
Professor Norman Barry - "The Road to Stagnation: A Pessimists's Response to Hayek's Optimism"
Norman Barry is Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham. His essays have appeard in a wide range of academic journals, and he is the author of such books as Hayek's Social and Economic Philosophy, An Introduction to Political Theory, On Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism, The New Right, The Invisible Hand in Economics and Politics and The Morality of Business Ethics
Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Hayek's Anti-rational Evolutionism: A Rationalist and Libertarian Critique"

One Day Conference - "Perspectives in Austrian School Economics", 3 July, 1993
Professor Richard Ebeling - "Austrian Economics: Developments and Prospects"
Richard Ebeling is Ludwig Von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College. and Vice-President of Academic Affairs for the Future of Freedom Foundation. He has edited a number of volumes, icluding Austrian Economics: Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future, Austrian Economics: A Reader, and Money, Method and the Market Process. He has also contributed essays to many other volumes, including The Gold Standard: An Austrian Perspective, The Meaning of Ludwig Von Mises, Economics and Hermeneutics, and Subjectivism, Intelligibility and Economic Understanding
Dr. Kevin Dowd - "Neoclassical Analysis and Austrian Conclusions"
Dr. Kevin Dowd is Lecturer in Economics at Nottingham University. He has contributed to such journals as The Review of Political Economy and Economic Affairs.
Dr. Peter Peter Wynarczyk - "The Strengths and Weaknesses of Austrian Economics"
Dr. Peter Wynarczyk is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Nottingham University. He has contributed to a number of scholarly journals and to the IEA Symposium Recent Controversies in Political Economy
Barry Macleod-Cullinane - "Cost, Choice and Subjectivism: An Austrian Analysis of Defence Economics"
Bary Macleod-Cullinane is currently completing his PhD in Political Philosophy at the University of York

One Day Conference - "The Security Services: Are They a Threat to Freedom", 14 November, 1993
Brian Crozier - "The Security Services and Their Role in a Free Society"
Brian Crozier is one of Britain's leading experts on defence and foreign policy. He is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Conflict and the author of many books, including The Minimum State, A Theory of Conflict, The Rebels, Neo-Colonialism, The Future of Communist Power, Socialism Explained, Strategy of Survival, The Struggle for the Third World and The War Called Peace
Robin Ramsay - "Unsupervised and Uncontrolled: The Problem of Security Services in a Free Society"
Rpbin Ramsay is Editor of Lobster, the noted journal of parapolitics, "conspiracy", and intellience issues. He is co-author of Smear: Wilson and the Secret State and had contributed to such journals as Tribune, Open Eye and The Times Higer Education Supplement
Larry O'Hara - "Searchlight Magazine: A Case Study in Secret State Media Manpiulation"
Larry O'Hara is an independent researcher into both British fascism and natioanal socialism and into the secret state. He is currently completing his PhD on British fascism, and has contributed to Lobster and Return
Brian Micklethwait - "What Should Libertarians Do About the Spies?" 

One Day Conference - "The First Europan Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy" (joint meeting with Privacy International UK and The UK Cryptocracy Association), 20 November, 1993

John Brimacombe - Conference Chairman
John Brimacombe is the Managing Director of Jobstream Group plc
John Gilmore - "Personal Privacy and Strong Cryptography"
John Gilmore id Chairman of the Baord of Cygnus Support and Founder and Board Member of The Electronic Freedom Foundation and the Cyberpunks.
Simon Davies - "New Trends in Surveillance and How to Combat Them"
Simon Davies is Director General of Privacy International and a member of the School of Law at the University of New South Wales
Tom Burroughes - "Electronic Privacy Issues in the UK: A Journalist's Perspective"
Tom Burroughes is Deputy Chief Rporter on the East Anglian Daily Times
David Chaum - "Cryptology, Electronic Currency and Privacy"
Dr. David Chaum is Head of the Cryptography Group at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam and founder of DigiCash, which develops electronic payment systems He was one of the founders of the International Association for Cryptologic Reserach and remains active on its Board.
Russell Whittaker - "The Electronic Community in the UK and the Effect of Government Legislation"
Russell Whittaker is a consultant on electronic communications, Communications Editor of Extropy magazine, and a Director of ECFP Ventures Ltd.
Duncacn Frissell - "Traditional Privacy in the Electronic Age"
Duncan Frissell is an attorney, technical author and consultant on personal and financial privacy 
Elaine Fletcher - "The Data Protection Act of 1984 and Its Effects"
Elaine Fletcher is Assistant Solicitor for Eric James Howe, Data Protection Registrar (UK) 
Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Data Protection and Privacy: A Libertarian View"

Libertarian International Conference , Tallin, Estonia, 1993

1994

Special Seminar - "Neil Hamilton, MP, "On Deregulation and the Economy", Committee Room, The House of Commons, 19 January, 1994
Neil Hamilton is the most radical and outspoken supporter of the free market in the current Conservative government. A longstanding supporter of the Institute of Economic Affairs, he has also been European and Parliamentary Affairs Director of the Institute of Directors, a Conservative Party Whip, a member of the Treasury Select Committee, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Backbench Trade and Industry Committee, and Secretary of the Finance Committee. Appointed Minister for Corporate Affairs at the Department of Trade and Indistry in 1992, he is responsible for deregulation, competition policy, restrictive trade practices and privatisation of the coal indistry

Special Seminar - "Why the Age of Consent Should Be the Same for Homosexuals As For Heterosexuals", The Jubilee Room, The House of Commons, 9 February, 1994 (joint meeting  with Diversity: The Campaign for Lifestyle Freedom)
Tony Benn, MP
Tony Benn is Labour MP for Sedgefield, and was Minister of Technology and Minister of Energy in past Labour Governments.  His many books include Arguments for Socialism and Arguments for Democracy. 
Jerry Hayes, MP
Jerry Hayes is Conservative MP 
Angela Mason
Angela Mason is Director of Stonewall, the campaign for gay rights, and a regular broadcaster
Marc-Henri Glendening 
Marc-Henri Glendeing is a former Chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students. He has contibuted to a number of books, including The 'New Right' Enlightenment, and has personally campaigned in South Africa against apartheid socialism. He is Director of Diversity: The Campaign for Lifestyle Freedom
Dr. Chris R. Tame

One Day Conference - "Reinventing Civil Society", 16 April, 1994
Dr. David Green -"Reinventing Civil Society: Mutual Aid in the 19th Century and Its Lessons For Today"
A former Labour Party Councillor, Dr. David Green is Director of the Institute of Economic Affaits Health and Welfare Unit. His many books include  Power and Party in an English City, Mutual Aid or Welfare State?, Working Class Patients and the Medical Establishment, Equalising People and The New Right. He has also contributed to such journals as Municipal Review, Local Government Studies, The Journal of Social Policy, Economic Affairs, Political Quarterly and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Dr. Tim Evans - "Socialism Without the State: The Re-Emergence of Communitarian Self Help"
Dr. Robert Grant - "Virtue aand Regulation"
Dr. Robert Grant is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Oakeshott and has contributed to such journals as The International Journal of Social Education, Philosophical Quarterly, History of European Ideas, Shakespeare Studies, The Salisbury Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Educational Supplement
Robert Whelan - "Lifestyle Choices: Who Pays?"
Robert Whelan is Assistant Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs Health and Welfare Unit and has written and broadcast extensively on population and environmental topics. He has produced a series of videos on social and medical issues, including Facing Facts on Population, The Great Population Hoax and The Truth About AIDS. He is also the author of Mounting Greenery: A Short View of the Green Phenomenon, Choices in Childbearing,  and The Cross and the Rainforest and writes regularly for Economic Affairs

One Day Conference - "Freedom Versus Censorship", 8 October, 1994
Dr. Bill Thompson - "Curbing Adults' Rights to Do or View: The Censors' Justifications"
Dr. Bill Thompsn is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Reading. He is the author of a number of scholarly papers on criminology and the sociology of moral panics and religious fundamentalism and of the recent book Soft Core: Moral Crusades Against Pornography in Britian and America
Avedon Carol - "Feminist Issues in the Censorship Debate"
Avedon Carol is a founding member of Feminists Against Censorship, and is also on the Executive Committee of Liberty: The National Council for Civil Liberties. She co-edited the book Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism and is the author of Nudes, Prudes and Attiutudes: Pornography and Censorship
Dr. Sean Gabb - "The History of Censorship"
Dr. Chris Tame - "The 'New Censorship' and the Libertarian Response"

1995

One Day Conference - "Eastern Europe Today", 29 April, 1996
Andrew McAllum - "An Overview of Eastern Eurpe and the Relationship Between the Former USSR and the Former Soviet Bloc"
Andrew McAllum is Executive Director of the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies. He appears extensively on TV and radio and has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, European Security Analysis and The Salisbury Review (of which he was formerly Deputy Editor). His most recent monograph od The New Authoritarians: Reflections on the Greens
Brian Crozier - "The Re-Emergence of the Communist Party and the Continuing Threat in Eastern Europe"
Brian Crozier is one of Britain's leading experts on defence and foreign policy. He is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Conflict and the author of many books, including The Minimum State, A Theory of Conflict, The Rebels, Neo-Colonialism, The Future of Communist Power, Socialism Explained, Strategy of Survival, The Struggle for the Third World and The War Called Peace
George Miller - "Russia Today: Problems and Prospects"
George Miller is former Senior Vice-Chairman of the Young Liberals, former Senior Reserach Officer of the Institute for European Defense and Strategic Studies, Secretary of the East European Sub-Committee of the Foreign Affairs Panel of the Liberal Party, and Editor of Soviet Labour Review. He is also British Representative of NTS, the heroic anti-Soviet resistance organisation. He has contributed to The Guarian, The Daily Telegraph, Soviet Analyst and Conflict Studies Journal, He recenly wrote Refugees From Afghanistan for the International Society of Human Rights. He now heads the Russian Research Consultancy and recently negotiated the first joint trade relationship between Russia and Chile
Paul Reynolds - "Rebuilding Capitalism in Eastern Europe"
Paul Reynolds is International Director of the Adam Smith Institute International, specialising in privatisation consultancy for Eastern Europe and the Third Wold. He is the author of a number of studies, including Amnesia for Reform, Eastern Promise, The Fourth Economic Resource, Barket Based Industrial Policy and A Study in Concentration in the UK Retail Industry, He has contributed to The Finacial Times and The Wall Street Journal and appears frequently on TV and radio

Special Seminar - Ian Lambert, "The Philosophical Foundations of a Free Market and a Free Society", 12 December, 1995
In Lambert is a leading law and accountancy practitioner based in the Cayman Islands. A graduate of the University of Cambridge he is a founding member of the Congress of Political Economists International. His publications include Out of the Crisis With Denning, George and Mises, Henry George, Ludwig Von Mises and the Idea of Mathematical Ecomomics and Economics and the Poverty of Determinism

1996

One Day Conference - "Anarchy, Minarchy or Limited Government?", 4 may, 1996
Professor John  T. Sanders - "Political Authority"
John Sanders is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School for Social Reserach at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in Warsaw. He is author of The Ethical Argument Against Government and has contributed to The Journal of Libertarian Studies
Dr. Jan C. Lester - "Market Anachy, Liberty and Pluralism"
Dr. Jan Lester is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Middlesex
Dr. Sean Gabb - "Anarchism: A Tory Sceptical View"
Barry Macloed-Cullinane - "Power and Political Entrepreneurship"
Barry Macleod-Cullinane is a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Politics at the University of Hull
Panel Discussion - "How To Get From Here to There (And Where Is 'There' Anyway)"

One Day Conference - "Murray Rothbard: An Appreciation", 13 April, 1996
Dr. Chris R. Tame - "Rothbard's Social Theoy, With an Analysis of His Views on Libertarian Strategy"
Brian Micklethwait - "How Rothbard Gets His Axioms and His Conclusions the Wrong Way Round"
Professor David Conway - "Rothbard's Anarchism:  A Critical Examination"
David Conway is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Middlesex University. He has contributed to a number of scholarly journals and is author of A Farewell to Marx and Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal
Barry Macleod-Cullinane - "Freedom, Planning and the Libertarian Law Code: Murray Rothbard's Legal Naturalism Examined"
Barry Macleod-Cullinane is a graduate teaching asistant in the Department of Politics at the University of Hull

One Day Conference - "Euroscepticism and Libertarianism: Friends or Foes?", 1 June, 1996
Antoine Clarke - "Market Alternatives to European Monetary Union"
Dr. Nigel Ashford - "Free Market Federalism" 
Dr. Nigel Ashford is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Strathclyde. Formerly Secretary General of the European Democrat Students he has also contributed to a number of academic journals, including Government and Opposition, Salisbury Review, Dilog (Norway), Tidskriften Heimdal (Sweden), and Policy Review. He is also co-editor of the recent Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought
Dr. Tim Evans - "The Nation State and Free markets: The Contradictions of Conservative Euroscepticism in the Age of Globalisation"
Aaron McLaughlin - "In Defence of Spanish Fishermen: Europe Protecting the Individual Against the State"
Aaron McLaughlin is a graduate student at Hull University Law School and President of Hull University European Society
Brian Micklethwait - "Britain and Euro-Balkanisation: Am I Still Right"
Panel Discussion - "The Conservative Party Adrift: Eurosceptical or Libertarian?"

One Day Student Conference - "Liberty in the Next Millennium: Setting the Conservative Agenda", 8 June, 1996 (joint meeting with Freedom First, a new group formed to advance libertarianism within the Conservative Party)
Dr. Madsen Pirie - "Public Policy Entrepreneurship: Implementing the Open Society"
Formerly Professor of Philosophy at Hillsdale College Dr. Madsen Pirie is President of the influential Adam Smith Institute He is also the author of numerous books and monographs including Trial and Error and the Idea of Progress and The Logic of Economics
Stacey Lee - "On Selling Liberty to Left and Right"
Stacey Lee is an American Student currently at the University of Cambridge. She is a member of the Cambridge Freedom Society
Brian Micklethwait - "Publish or Die!: Bequeathing Libertarianism to Posterity"
Dr. Tim Evans - "A Short History of Libertarian Influence in Conservative Party Youth Structures"
Gareth Williams - "Freedom First - Dr. Evans' Next Chapter?"
Gareth Williams is one of founders of Freedom First
Adanm Tebble - "Can Partyarchy Advance Libertarianism?"
Adam Tebble is prospective parliamentary candidate for the United Kingdom Independence Party
Barry MacLead-Cullinane - "Liberty Co-opted: Marketing State Growth"
Barry Macleod-Cullinane is a graduate teaching asistant in the Department of Politics at the University of Hull
Martin Ball & Graham Elson - "Debate: Should the Young Conservatives Be Shut Down?"
Martin Ball is Assistant Director at FOREST and author of a recent monograph on Conservative Party internal politics
Graham Elson is one of the founders of Freedom First
Nick Davis - "On the Indivisibility of Economic and Social Liberty and the Unholy Alliances of Intolerance, Repression and Prohibition"
Nick Davis is a member of Manchester Free Society
Graham Elson - "A Spanner in the Works: Sado-Masochism and Sexual Freedom"
Paul Coulam - "How to Argue With a Scrutonian: Putting the Consent Back Into the Age of Consent"
Paul Coulam is an independent libertarian scholar
Dr. Sean Gabb - "Guns and Freedom: An Argument for Complete Decontrol of Firearms"
Dr. Jan C. Lester - "The Libertarain Case for Gun Controls"
Dr Jan C. Lester is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Middlesex
Peter Clarke - "Free Trade: Open Borders for Capital and Labour"
Peter Clarke is a former Conservative Party parliamentary candidate. He has been Campaign Director of PULSE (the campaign for efficiency in local government services) and a radio and television journalist and presenter who has worked for BBC Radio Scotland, LBC, and Channel 4's "Diverse Reports". He has also written extensively for the national press and is the co-author of The New Enlightenment
Andrew Farrant - "Money and Inflation"
Andrew Farrant is a research student at the Department of Economics, George Mason University

One Day Conference - "Anarchy, State or Utopia?; Robert Nozick's Project Revisited", 22 June, 1996
Barry Macleod-Cullinane - "Rights Violations and Coercion: The Process by Which Robert Nozick Justifies the Minimal State"
Barry Macleod-Cullinane is a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Politics at the University of Hull
Paul Coulam - "Robett Nozick as a Libertarian Philosopher: An Unexamined Life"
Paul Coulam is an independent libertarian scholar
Nick Davis - "Libertaria- Love It or Leave It: Secession from Robert Nozick's Minimal State"
Nick Davis is a member of Manchester Free Society
Ken Macleod - "Imagining Anarchies, or Life After Death and Taxes"
Ken Macleod is author of the recent successful science fiction novel The Star Fraction

1997

No conferences organised

1998

No conferences organised

1999

Two Day Conference - "Liberty '99: The European Conference of the Libertarian Alliance and the Libertarian International", National Liberal Club, London, 23 October - Sunday 24 October, 1999
Dr. Nigel Ashford - "Real Rights Versus Pseudo-Rights"
Dr. Nigel Ashford is Principal Lecturer in Politics at Staffordshire University and the author of many academic essays and monographs. He is co-editor of A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought and Public Policy and the Impact of the New Right.
Professor Antony Flew - "The Grounding of Rights"
Professor Antony Flew is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, and one of Britain's leading philosophers. He is the author of countless books and essays, including Thinking About Thinking, Thinking About Social Thinking, Sociology, Equality and Education, The Politics of Procrustes, A Rational Animal?, and Crime or Disease?.
Ken Macleod - "Science Fiction, Liberty and Literature"
Ken Macleod is the Prometheus Prize-winning author of three major libertarian Science fiction novels, The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal and The Cassini Division.
Professor David Conway - "The Nation and Nationalism in Classical Liberal Thought"
Professor David Conway is Professor of Philosophy at Middlesex University, and is the author of A Farewell to Marx and Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal as well as many other articles.
Professor James Tooley - "Education Without the State: A Worldwide Perspective"
Professor James Tooley is Professor of Education Policy at the University of Newcastle. His books include The Global Education Industry, Education Without the State, The Higher Education Debate, and Educational Research: A Critique.
Professor Kevin Dowd - "The Importance of Free Banking"
Professor Kevin Dowd is Professor of Economics at Sheffield University and the world's leading expert on free banking. He is the author of numerous essays and books including, Private Money: The Path to Monetary Stability, The State and the Monetary System, and Laissez-Faire Banking.
European Libertarian International Representatives - "The State of the European Libertarian Movement", Chaired by Hubert Jongen, Chairman of the Libertarian International
Forum Meeting - "Liberty in Cyberspace", a networking meeting for all libertarians interested in internet issues and international co-operation in libertarian activities on the net.
Dr. Bill Thompson - "Sex Wars: How the Competing Agendas of the Gay Movement, Feminism and Fundamentalism All Harm Libert"y
Dr. Bill Thompson is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Reading, and one of Britain's leading experts on pornography and child abuse. His books include Soft Core and Sadomasochism. He is a frequent expert witness in legal cases.
Professor David Gladstone - "W(h)ither Welfare?"
Professor David Gladstone is Reader in the History of Social Policy at Bristol University. A descendant of the great Liberal statesman William Gladstone himself, he is the author and editor of a number of major works on social policy, including Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare State, Opening Up the Medical Monopoly and Thomas Chalmers: Writings on Economic and Social Welfare, and The Philosophy of the State and the Problem of Social Welfare: The Writings of Helen Bosanquet.
Marc-Henri Glendening & Mark Littlewood  - "Debate: The European Union, Force for Freedom or for Tyranny?"
Marc-Henri Glendening is former Vice-President of the Federation of Conservative Students and currently is Campaign Director for The Democracy Movement, the leading British anti-EU organisation. His essays and monographs have been published by the Office of Health Economics and the Libertarian Alliance, and he was a contributor to The New Right Enlightenment.
Mark Littlewood is a supporter of the Libertarian Alliance and Head of Regional Campaigning of The European Movement. His essays have appeared in such journals as New Federalist, European Campaigner and Britain in Europe. He is also the author of three forthcoming LA monographs. 
Dr. Denis O'Keeffe - "Political Correctness": A Public Choice Analysis"
Dr. Denis O'Keeffe  is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at North London University. His books and monographs include The Wayward Elite, Homage to Orwell,  and Truancy in English Schools, and he has contributed to numerous journals, including Salisbury Review, Encounter and Economic Affairs.
Robert Whelan - "Environmentalism: Science or Religion?"
Robert Whelan is Deputy Director of thy IEA's Health and Welfare Unit, and Director of the Committee on Population and Welfare. His books and monograph's include Mounting Greenery, The Truth About AIDS, Facing Facts on Population, and Choices in Childbearing, Wild in Woods: The Myth of the Noble Eco-Savage.
Dr. Stephen Davies - "Globalisation: Myths and Realities"
Dr. Stephen Davies is Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-editor of A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought, and has contributed to a wide range of journals and books including Economic Affairs, Cato Journal, The Journal of Social Philosophy and Policy, Critical Review, The New Right Enlightenment, The State or the Market, and Crime and the Law.
Dr. Chris R. Tame, Dr. Sean Gabb & Brian Micklethwait - "Discussion Forum: New Times, New Problems, New Approaches? Issues of Strategy and Tactics for Libertarians"

Banquet - Featuring guest speakers, including Neil Hamilton, former Conservative Minister for Privatisation. Also includes the presentation of the Libertarian Alliance's "Liberty Awards" for 1999.

Exhibition - "The Think Tank Room", display and sale of publications by leading  British British think tanks and political organisations: Institute of Economic Affairs; IEA Health and Welfare Unit; Feminists Against Censorship; Independent Healthcare Association; Social Market Foundation; LM Magazine; Demos; The Fabian Society; Right Now; The Salisbury Review; and FOREST.

II:  "THE PUTNEY DEBATES" (TIM'S SOIREES), 1989-1999

1989

1999

2000

Leon Leouw - "The Complexity of the Law", 6 September, 2000
Leon Leouw is a practising lawyer and Executive Director of the Free Market Foundation in South Africa. A leading libertarian critic of apartheid he was also a member of the Swart Commission on the economic future of the Ciskei region and is co-author of The Solution, the bestselling book on how to end apartheid
 

III: "BRIAN'S EVENINGS", 1988-1999

Unfortunately we have failed to keep a complete record of all these meetings, especially the early ones.

1988

1989

Dr. Sean Gabb & Dr. Paul Marks - "Ten Years of Thatcherism: A Libertarian Critique" May, 1989 

General Discussion - "The European Community: Towards a Libertarian Analysis", June, 1989

Dr. Sean Gabb - "The Libertarianism of John Locke", July 1989

1990

Dr Sean Gabb - "Islam: A Threat to the West?", October 1990

1991

Dr Sean Gabb - "The Fall of the Roman Empire", August 1991

1992

1993

Dr Sean Gabb - "An Economic History of Slavery", January 1993

1994

Dr Sean Gabb - "Why Identity Cards will come, and why they will be evil", October 1994

1995

1996

1997

Dr Sean Gabb - "How Labour will complete the Police State started by the Tories", June, 1997

1998

Profesor Nigel Harris - "Immigration and Why It's Bad to Stop It", 27 February, 1998
Professor Nigel Harris is head of the Development Planning Unit, University College, London, and author of The New Untouchables: Immigration and the New World Worker

Alexander Evans - "The Politics of Business and the Business of Politics - The Work of the International Division of the Adam Smith Institute", 27 March, 1998
Alexander Evans is an academic and business consultant who works at the Adam Smith Institute International

Dr. Jan C. Lester - "Liberty, Utility and Anarchy: A Libertarian Reconciliation", 24 April, 1998
Dr. Jan Lester is a lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Middlesex

Dr. Sean Gabb - "The Impact of Printing", 31 July, 1998 

Dr. Rob Thomas - "The Balkan Imbroglio", 26 September, 1998
Dr. Rob Thomas is a former researcher at the Adam Smith Institute and a former staff member of the International Department at Conservative Central Office.  He is the author of the forthcoming book, Serbia: The Politics of Milosevic.

1999

Dr. Sean Gabb - "The Failure of Classical Greek Democracy", 26 February, 1999

David Farrer - "What's Happening With Japan", 26 March, 1999

Martin Summers - "Libertarian Aesthetics and the Acting Out of Liberty", 30 April, 1999
Martin Summers is a former Researcher for Michael Portill MP, former Research Associate at the Institute of Economic Affairs, former Intern at the Cato Institute and is currently Industry and Government ffairs Manager at the UU pharmaceutical giant Merck, Sharp and Hohme

Dr. Chris R. Tame - "The Organisatinal History of Libertarianism: The 17th Century to the 20th Century", 28 May, 1999

Matthew O'Keeffe - "Why London Underground Should Be Privatised", 27 August, 1999
Matthew O'Keeffe is a leading transport consulltant with a major City stockbroker

David Kirsch Carr - "Why Are 'Creative' People So Socialist, And What Can We Do About It?", 29 October, 1999
A former Solicitor David Kirsch Carr is currently working as a scriptwriter and playwright

Sean Cronin - "An Alternative View of World War One", 26 November, 1999
Sean Cronin is currently an officer in the British Army

Discussion Forum - "Does the Idea of Historical Progress Have Any Meaning, Or Is History Just One Damn Thing After Another?, 31 December, 1999

2000

Dr. Stephen Davies - "A Libertarrian Historian Looks Ahead", 25 February, 2000
Dr. Stephen Davies is Lecturer in History at Manchester Pollytechnic and has contributed to a number of scholarly journals, including Economic Affairs, and such symposia as Crime and the Law

Patrick White - "Lloyds: What It Is and How It Works", 25 February, 2000
Patrick White currently works for a Lloyds syndicate

Innes Bowen - "Women and Politics", 31 March, 2000
Inns Bowen is a broadcast journalist who is currently programme organiser for BBC Radio's "Woman's Hour"

Leo Boyes - "The Work of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society", 28 April, 2000
Formerly a professional diplomat, Leo Boyes is now General Secretary of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society

Antoine Clarke - "Libertarian Parties Around the World", 26 May, 2000

Phil Collins - "On Privacy", 30 June, 2000 
Former Europen Equity Strategist with Dresdner, Kleinwort, Benson, Phil Collns of currently Director of the Social Market Foundation

Dr. Sean Gabb - "The Impact of Printing Revisited", 28 July, 2000

Matthew O'Neill - "The State of the Broadcasting Art", 25 August, 2000
 

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