Cardiff University 125 years lecture
Starts: 19 May 2009
Cardiff 125 Celebrations: Lecture on Tuesday 19th May
Empire, Gender and Obsession: The world-wide political thought of Philip Francis.
By Professor Linda Colley
(Philip Francis was a politician and pamphleteer, and an opponent of Warren Hasting)
This event is hosted by the Cardiff School of History and Archaeology. The lecture will take place in the Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre at 6pm and will be preceded by a Wine Reception to be held in the Foyer of the Julian Hodge Builiding at 5.15pm.
Professor Colley is a historian of international eminence and an authority on the British Empire and on the forging of British national identity in the eighteenth century. Her books include:
Britons: Forging the Nation, 1717-1837 (1996)
Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (2003)
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A woman in World History (2008)
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Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre
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