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All these illustrated lectures
can be booked for delivery, without fee. Talks usually
last for 50 minutes (but can be abbreviated or lengthened
if required), followed by questions and discussion.
Technical facilities for showing Powerpoint illustrations
(or DVD for lecture 6) will be required.
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Behind the Bright Lights: Deep
Continuities in Urban History
What common factors can be found between all cities
from ancient times until now? This illustrated lecture
finds a surprising number of persistent characteristics
- from ancient Babylon to the 470 giant cities, each with
over one million inhabitants, of today's fast-urbanising
world.
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Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: Their
Rise, Fall & Legend
Georgian London had over 65 pleasure gardens but only
one - Vauxhall - became the prototype of the urban pleasure
garden and ancestor of places like Copenhagen's Tivoli
Gardens. This illustrated lecture explains how that happened
- and what it means for the history of the urban leisure
industry past, present and future.
Note: To purchase Penelope J. Corfield's pamphlet, Vauxhall
and the Invention of the Urban Pleasure Gardens (2008),
please contact Agenda Services:
www.seancreighton.com
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Naming the Age: What People Thought
of their Times, 1700-1830
'It is an age of enlightenment'. 'It is an age of hypocrisy
and greed'. This illustrated lecture examines the contrasting
verdicts upon their own times, as made by people living
in Britain during the years from 1700 and 1830 - and assesses
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John Thelwall, 1764-1834: Man
of Letters and Radical Campaigner
This illustrated lecture explores the lessons to be
learned from career of a remarkable man, who was at first
famed and then notorious in his own day - and has then
been forgotten from history, until now, when there is
a 'rediscovery' of Thelwall both as a writer and a pioneer
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The 'Aristocracy of Talent':
The Coming Meritocratic Ideal, 1750-1830
Georgian Britain was experiencing social change, with
calls for the traditional 'Aristocracy of Birth and Blood'
to be replaced by a new 'Aristocracy of Talent'. This
illustrated lecture shows how a new ideal of Meritocracy
emerged, complete with discussions as to how to find true
Merit - a theme with continuing topical relevance. |
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Making a History DVD: The Story
of Red Battersea 1908-2008
A local history group together made an hour-long
DVD on Battersea Labour history, with the indispensible
expertise of producer/director Mike Marchant. It
was great fun but also tough going. This panel presentation
(with screening of some sections) advises on the
practical challenges as well as the pleasures of
creating a History DVD to professional standards.
Note: to acquire copies of DVD Red Battersea:
One Hundred Years of Labour, 1908-2008, please
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History and the Return
to the Big Picture: Continuity, Gradual Change,
and Revolution
This illustrated lecture examines the
most famous visual images of Time, as well as the
most enduring models of Time (as a cycle, as a line,
and so forth), before putting the whole together
into an interpretation of History in three dimensions,
incorporating continuity; gradual change; and radical
transformation.
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Anti-Feminisms: Opposition
to Women's Higher Education and Voting Rights
This illustrated lecture explores the many different
grounds on which opposition to women's gaining access
to higher education and to the vote was justified
in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. The contributions of anti-feminist women
as well as anti-feminist men are identified - and
the double-edged weapon of satirical laughter is
enjoyed.
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