The St. George’s Society of Baltimore is pleased to welcome Richard Bell, Ph.D., as the featured speaker for the 2026 Prince of Wales Brunch.

Dr. Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, where he has taught since 2006. Educated at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, he is an award-winning historian whose work is widely admired for its narrative clarity, global scope, and human focus. He has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress, and is the recipient of both the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.

He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home, a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. His most recent book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, was published by Penguin in November 2025 and has been widely praised for recasting America’s war of independence as a transformative global event—one that reshaped societies, economies, and lives far beyond Britain and the colonies.

At the Prince of Wales Brunch, Dr. Bell will speak from the portion of his book that explores how the American Revolution was received by the eighteenth-century British public and political establishment, offering insight into how events in North America reverberated across Britain and the wider world.  Grounded in vivid stories of individuals, his work provides a compelling new perspective on a familiar chapter of history.

The Society looks forward to an engaging and thoughtful address that reflects the Prince of Wales Brunch’s longstanding tradition of distinguished speakers and meaningful historical conversation.