An Outdated Impulse? British Family Identity and Genealogical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century
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“The Magna Charta of Hindostan”: Constituting the British Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
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American Historical Association
Matter and Consciousness – Dr Iain McGilchrist
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Michael Jakob, “Landscape Architecture and the ‘New Generic'”
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Mike Parker Pearson Stonehenge Lecture
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Professor David Crystal: The Influence of the King James Bible on the English Language
On 7 July 2011, the British Council invited Professor David Crystal to speak at the English-Speaking Union in London about the influence of the King James ...
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Lecture: Gender Bending in Eighteenth-Century Naples
Dawson W. Carr Recorded June 19, 2016 at the Portland Art Museum.
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Periodical literature of 18th century
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Prof Dame Mary Beard - Classical Civilisation?
Professor Dame Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, delivers the Gifford Lecture "Classical Civilisation?". It is the ...
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Histories of International Law: dealing with Eurocentrism
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LSE
Prof Dame Mary Beard - Tyranny and democracy
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Why the Enlightenment still matters today - Professor Justin Champion
"The Enlightenment" has been regarded as a turning point in the intellectual history of the West. The principles of religious tolerance, optimism about human ...
Gresham College
Suman Seth - Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
The evolution of medicine in the 18th-century British empire was deeply intertwined with constructions of race, according to Suman Seth, a professor of History ...
Cornell University Library
Life as a Child in the 18th Century
Ever wonder what life was like for kids in the 18th century? Find out from some of Colonial Williamsburg's junior interpreters, who help bring the 18th century to ...
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What Is Global History? A Roundtable - February 20, 2020
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Gary Taubes ‘The Case Against Sugar’
Sugar is being called the new tobacco. Recent revelations exposed the sugar industry's backroom cover-up of the harmful effects of this pervasive ingredient.
Town Hall Seattle
The Black Death - Professor Sir Richard J. Evans FBA
Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in the sixth century, killing an estimated 25 million people in the Byzantine Empire and spreading ...
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Dr Iain McGilchrist, The Divided Brain and Human Behaviour, Advaya Talks
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Pieter Geyl and the 18th Century
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Eighteenth-Century Seeds & the Case for Greening Book History | Fireside Chat
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LSE Events | Russia In The World
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"Towards a New Past: the Legacies of British Slave-ownership" by Professor Catherine Hall
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Lecture — The Sofa: Furnishing Moral Tales in Eighteenth-Century French Painting (David Pullins)
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British Art and Natural Forces: Plants, Animals
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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It | Gary Taubes | Talks at Google
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Lecture — Cabinetmakers of German Origin in Eighteenth-Century Paris (E. Ulrich Leben)
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The 1619 Project – Slavery and the American Revolution: A Historical Dialogue
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Representing the Gothic: Dr Jak Peake
In this video, Dr Jak Peake defines the gothic and discusses how contemporary gothic characters compare to gothic characters in 18th century British literature.
University of Essex
Imperialism: Is it Still a Relevant Concept? | The New School
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Peter Nolan on China's silk road strategy
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The Strange History of American-British Intelligence Relations
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Conversations with History: Robert Fisk
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Terry Eagleton: "The Death of Criticism?"
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The Great Reversal: The "Rise of Japan" and the "Fall of China" after 1895 as Historical Fables
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Book launch ‘English Arbitration and Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century’
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The Half Has Never Been Told | Edward E. Baptist | Talks at Google
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