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Drama at Dr Johnson’s House, 15-16 November

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Mrs 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, 2007

Dr. 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.