Archive for November 8th, 2007
Drama at Dr Johnson’s House, 15-16 November
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Mrs Piozzi’s Party, or, The Tale of Mrs Thrale’ Thursday 15 and Friday 16 November 2007, 7:30pm The setting is Bath, 1820 on the occasion of Mrs Piozzi’s lavish 80th birthday party, an event which scandalised many of the ‘uninvited prudes in Bath’. Mrs Piozzi looks back over her life, her marriages and her friendships…. [...]
Tue 13 Nov – Birkbeck History Research Seminar
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Dr. Duncan Bell (Christ’s College, Cambridge) will lecture on ‘Republican imperialism: J. A. Froude and the ambivalence of empire’ at 6pm, Tuesday, 13 November, 2007. Birkbeck College, Room 253 (Malet Street). The Seminar will be followed by drinks and optional dinner with the speaker.