Richard Price Tercentenary Celebration

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The event will involve a public lecture 'Revolutionary Friendships: Richard Price, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the Cause of Independence' from the guest of the Learned Society of Wales, Dr Patrick Spero, who will be visiting from Philadelphia, where he is the Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society's Library and Museum.

The lecture will be followed by a roundtable discussion of the enduring legacy and relevance of Richard Price.

This will be the return leg of an exchange which saw Prof Iwan Morus FLSW deliver a lecture on Price on the 12th January at the APS.

The event will be recorded, and a video of the event will be available afterwards.

The event is sponsored by Huw Irranca Davies MS.

Dr Patrick Spero is the Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society's Library & Museum in Philadelphia. As a scholar of early American history, Dr. Spero specializes in the era of the American Revolution. He has published over a dozen essays and reviews on the topic. He is the author of Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 (Norton, 2018) and Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) and the edited anthology The American Revolution Reborn: New Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). Prior to his appointment at the American Philosophical Society, Dr. Spero taught at Williams College where he served on the faculty of the History and Leadership Studies Department.