Department of History

Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850

A broad history of the multi-faceted relationship between the arts, political culture, and war in Britain and the British Empire between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries.  Drawing on a broad range of archival and printed sources as well as material culture, it seeks to revise our understanding of the cultural role of the Hanoverian and early Victorian British state.

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