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To view any of our past lectures please visit our YouTube channel.
Explore the remarkable role of Georgian caricature in the equally remarkable Queen Caroline controversy of 1820–21. The trial of the queen for alleged adultery produced many extraordinary images in which Caroline triumphs over her cowardly and conniving enemies, subverting gender and political hierarchies, and giving a voice to the millions of British men and women who supported her cause.
After Brian Hope-Taylor back in 1963 presented his findings at excavations of the Anglian palace site at Yeavering this will now be critically reviewed to the evidence he recovered from, and the interpretations he advanced for both Yeavering and Doon Hill, Dunbar.
A full day of reflections, information and ideas about women and how they explored the past, punctuated by four specially created stories.
Hear about Old Sarum, one of the most significant monuments in southern England.
The paper will illustrate several projects conducted in Libya to assess and document the impact of the conflict and provide long-term suitable solutions.
Though Vesuvius and the Cities, Herculaneum, Stabia and above all Pompeii buried in the eruption of 79CE seem inseparable, they were first brought together by the archaeology, arts, fiction and politics of the Romantic era. Together they have irrevocably shaped our view of the volcano and its victims.
