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Adventurers, Travellers and Explorers: Discovering Ancient Civilizations and New Worlds British travellers have been lured to far-flung corners of the globe for centuries, their travels motivated by the promise of treasure and fame, the search for new sea passages, or the discovery of new lands and new peoples. This course will investigate some of the extraordinary feats of these travellers, from the seafarers of Elizabeth I’s reign to the discovery of ancient civilizations in the early nineteenth century. |
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| Tuesday 7 October 2003 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
| Discovering
Albion Jill Cook, Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum |
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| 12pm | ||||
| Elizabeth
and Empire: Exploration and Colonization in the Sixteenth Century David Spence, Director of Exhibitions, National Maritime Museum |
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| 1pm | ||||
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| 2pm | ||||
| Title to
be confirmed William Dalrymple, Author |
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| Tuesday 14 October 2003 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
| Outsiders
in the Great Within: Western Travellers to China Dr. Frances Wood, Curator of the Chinese Collection, British Library |
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| 12pm | ||||
| James Bruce
and his Artist, Luigi Balugani, in Africa Nigel Hepper, Retired Botanist, Kew Herbarium |
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| 1pm | ||||
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| 2pm | ||||
| Art and Artists
on Cook's Voyages Pieter van der Merwe, National Maritime Museum |
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| Tuesday 21 October 2003 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
| Experimental
Gentlemen: Science and Scientists on the Cook Voyages Nigel Rigby, Head of Research, National Maritime Museum |
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| 12pm | ||||
| In Search
of Classical Greece: Travellers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries Richard Stoneman, Honorary Fellow, University of Exeter |
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| 1pm | ||||
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| Ladies at
Large: Women Travellers in the Middle East Sarah Searight |
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| Tuesday 28 October 2003 | ||||
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| Egypt Rediscovered:
Artists, Travellers and Scientists on the Nile Dr. Patricia Usick, Honorary Archivist, Department of Ancient Egypt & Sudan, British Museum |
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| 12pm | ||||
| In Search
of Babylon and Nineveh St John Simpson, Ancient Near East Department, British Museum |
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| 1pm | ||||
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| 2pm | ||||
| Sir James
Brooke: White Rajah of Sarawak Nigel Barley, Anthropologist and Broadcaster |
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The cost of the full course is £215. The cost of the morning
lectures only (lunch not included) is £120. The lectures will
take place at The Medical Society of London, To apply, please contact us. |
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