Tim Bouverie Keynote Speaker

Tim Bouverie is a leading historian of twentieth-century politics and war. His latest book, Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler, explores the fragile wartime alliance between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, revealing the rivalries that shaped the post-war world. Praised as “remarkable” and “extremely timely” by Andrew Roberts, it draws on research in over 100 British and American archives. It won the 2026 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize, highlighting the book’s contemporary resonance.

With a journalist’s eye and a historian’s depth, Bouverie uncovers how strategy, ego and ideology collided within the Grand Alliance. His findings include new revelations on American economic dominance and the struggle to contain Soviet ambition.

A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, and former political journalist at Channel 4 News, Bouverie’s debut Appeasing Hitler was a Sunday Times bestseller and Orwell Prize finalist.

A compelling speaker, he helps audiences understand today’s uncertainty through the lens of history, offering lessons in negotiation, leadership and international cooperation.