The British Academy Lecture at Hay - The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815 - 1914
Sun 4 Jun 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
- Venue
- Baillie Gifford Stage, Hay Festival, Dairy Meadows, Brecon Road, Hay on Wye, HR3 5PJ
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Drawing on a lifetime of thinking about 19th-century Europe, the pre-eminent historian Richard J. Evans re-evaluates this remarkable era bounded by the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of World War I. Charting overwhelming cultural, political and technological change, he highlights how Europe dominated the rest of the world as never before or since.
Speaker:
Professor Sir Richard J. Evans FBA, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge and Provost of Gresham College, London
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