Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
25 April 2007 Repeat 29 April 2007
MEMORIES OF EMPIRE Andrew S. Thompson, Dean of Arts Faculty and Professor of Commonwealth and Imperial History at Leeds Universtiy is delivering tomorrow’s Trevor Reese Memorial Lecture at Kings College, London University entitled Living the Past. Public Memories of Empire in the Twenty-First Century.
He argues that “The British, it might be said, have been attached to that imperial past like a mooring rope: the further they travel, the more they seem to feel its pull”.
Should we try to forget out imperial past? Should we remember it differently? Can anything be gained by remembering Imperial history today?
Laurie Taylor is joined by Andrew S. Thompson and Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History to discuss the influence of Britain’s colonial past on its present, from foreign policy to British museums.
FAMILY AND KINSHIP IN EAST LONDON Paul Barker, Senior Research Fellow at the The Young Foundation marks the 50 years anniversary of the publication of Family and Kinship in East London by Michael Young and Peter Wilmott.
Additional information:
Andrew S. Thompson, Dean of Arts Faculty and Professor of Commonwealth and Imperial History, Leeds University
Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College, London
At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World by Catherine Hall (Editor), Sonya O. Rose (Editor) Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN-10: 0521670020 ISBN-13: 978-0521670029
Cultures of empire: A Reader - colonizers in Britain and the empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Publisher: Routledge ISBN-10: 0415929075 ISBN-13: 978-0415929073
Paul Barker, Senior Research Fellow at the The Young Foundation
Family and Kinship in East London by Michael Young, Peter Willmott Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-10: 0141189126 ISBN-13: 978-0141189123
