The Annual Lectures are delivered in November by eminent historians and subsequently published by the Institute.

The 2011 Annual Lecture Metternich's Britain was given by Professor Wolfram Siemann, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, on Friday, 11 November 2011.

The 2010 Annual Lecture A Sociologist in Politics was given by Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, London School of Economics, on Friday, 12 November 2010.

The 2009 Annual Lecture The 1970s in Europe: A Period of Promise or Disillusionment? was given by Professor Hartmut Kaelble, Humboldt University of Berlin, on Friday, 13 November 2009.This lecture is now available as a MP3 download (59 min, 54.1 MB).

The 2008 Annual Lecture Opposition to Charlemagne was given by Professor Dame Janet Nelson, King’s College London, on Friday, 7 November 2008.

The 2007 Annual Lecture The Battlefield: Towards a Modern History of War was given by Professor Stig Förster, University of Bern, on Friday, 9 November 2007.

The 2006 Annual Lecture Nationalism, Power and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany was given by Professor John Breuilly, London School of Economics, on Friday, 27 October 2006.