Seminar Leaders:
Lindsay O’Neill, University of Southern California
Tawny Paul, University of California, Los Angeles
2024-2025
Friday, October 18, 2024
“World News and the World According to the News: Information Networks in the British Empire before the Telegraph”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver 3 Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Friday, February 21, 2025
“Taken Not Given: The End of Slavery in Britain”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Seaver 3 Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Saturday, March 8, 2025
The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery
Interview led by Vanessa Wilkie, The Huntington Library
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Stewart R. Smith Board Room
10:00 am – 1:00 pm (PT)
Lunch will be provided by EMSI.
EMSI will distribute a limited number of books to those who attend.
Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University
Tuesday, March 25, 2024
“‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Stewart R. Smith Board Room
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm (PT)
RSVP by March 18 to receive pre-circulated materials.
This meeting is co-hosted by the American Origins Seminar series.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
“‘Accursed be he that first invented war’: Elizabethan drama and the wars of religion”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Saturday, May 3, 2025
“Patriarchy as a Social System in Early Modern Britain”
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)
Image: Paul Sandby (British, 1731-1809), “Band Box Seller,” n.d. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. © Courtesy of the Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California.
