# | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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1 | Book at Lunchtime: Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania | An intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century. | Ruth Scobie, Wes Williams, Ros Ballaster, Anna Senkiw | 10 Dec 2019 | |
2 | Creative Commons | David Garrick's Wigless Celebrity | Ruth Scobie's bite-sized talk on a portrait of David Garrick by Johan Zoffany | Ruth Scobie | 07 Jun 2016 |
3 | Creative Commons | Pegasus and Carthorse: The Many Shades of Disraeli’s Celebrity | Sandra Mayer assesses the intersections of literary and political fame in Disraeli’s public image. | Sandra Mayer | 08 Jul 2015 |