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In The Footsteps Of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 3 |
Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University Of Oxford, heads for Paris in her pursuit of Marie-Antoinette. |
Cecile Rives, Catriona Seth, Chantal Thomas |
15 Jan 2021 |
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In The Footsteps Of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 2 |
Catriona Seth, visits Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, built in the 19th century by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, a great collector of 18th century decorative arts, especially objects associated with Marie-Antoinette. |
Catriona Seth, Pippa Shirley, Rachel Jacobs, Mia Jackson |
15 Jan 2021 |
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In the Footsteps of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 1 |
Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford, visits the Wallace Collection in London on the trail of objects that once belonged to Marie-Antoinette. |
Catriona Seth, Helen Jacobsen |
15 Jan 2021 |
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The 2020 Besterman Lecture: Who were the French Revolutionaries? |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
William Doyle, Karen O'Brien, Gregory S Brown, Lauren Clay |
07 Dec 2020 |
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Robespierre and the Politicians' Terror |
The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on 'Robespierre and the Politicians’ Terror' with Marisa Linton (Kingston University). |
Marisa Linton |
10 May 2017 |
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Great men and fallen heroes |
Jessica Goodman explores how the meaning of ‘hero’ shifted in France in the late eighteenth-century in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday. |
jessica Goodman |
08 Feb 2016 |
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The French Revolutionary Terror: Proto-Totalitarian or Public Sphere? |
Professor Colin Jones CBE (Queen Mary University of London) delivers the annual Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation at Wolfson College, Oxford |
Colin Jones |
20 Nov 2015 |
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The French Revolution in a Global Perspective |
A lecture by the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography, Lynn Hunt. |
Lynn Hunt |
29 May 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Godwin and his historical context |
A discussion of the historical period in which William Godwin was writing and the social and political pressures that he was working under at the time. |
Mark Philp, David O’Shaughnessy, Ellen Sandford O'Neill |
22 Nov 2012 |
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Islam, the ‘Originaires’ and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal |
Mamadou Diouf from the University of Columbia gives the 2009 African Studies Annual Lecture on the influence of Islam in Post-Colonial Africa, in particular, the public spaces of the former French Colonial City of St Louis in Senegal. |
Mamadou Diouf |
16 Jun 2009 |
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Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952) |
Berlin lectures on Rousseau's 'On the Social Contract' and discusses his anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritarian implications of his philosophy. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1952. |
Isaiah Berlin |
14 Apr 2009 |
