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Thu 20 Aug | 13.00-14.00 | The British Library Foyle Room | Free | Part of the Eccles Institute's series of lunchtime talks, Donna Morrow discusses how Edward S. Curtis photographed Native North Americans, and Emily Stevenson reflects on how indigenous languages have been recorded by Europeans.
Thu 13 August | 13.00-14.00 | British Library Foyle Room | Free | Part of the Eccles Institute's series of lunchtime talks, two British Library curators discuss the Clarkson papers and the philatelic collections as sources for the American Revolution.
Tue 11 August | 13.00-14.00 | The British Library Foyle Room | Free | Part of the Eccles Institute's series of lunchtime talks, learn about Italian-American composer Gilda Ruta, and the collecting of Afro-Brazilian objects in Britain.
Thu 6 Aug | 13.00-14.00 | British Library Foyle Room | Free | Part of the Eccles Institute's series of lunchtime talks, Carmen Ávila discusses the life of Indigenous Mexican ruler Lady Six Monkey, and Dinos Pappas discusses US federal policy toward Native American education.
Premiering at the Camden Fringe Festival, Bastards, a new play explores the relationship between America's greatest Shakespearean actor, Edwin Booth, and his infamous brother, John Wilkes, President Lincoln's assassin. On New Year's Day, 1892, Edwin attempts a séance to contact his late wife—but summons Wilkes instead. Forced to confront their past, the brothers relive the family legacy, theatrical ambition, and political divide that forever altered American history. Written and performed by Americans, Olivia Merritt and LauraAnn Peterson, Bastards runs 8th & 9th at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre.
Patrick Spero is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society. As a scholar of early American history, he specializes in the era of the American Revolution, and has published over a dozen essays and reviews on the topic. He is the author of Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765–1776 (Norton, 2018), and of Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania, and The American Revolution Reborn: New Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century.
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