Event Type: HA

Takes Place: 7th October 2026

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Online

Description: The political power of the press was one of the great new revolutionary forces of the 18th century. In his illustrated talk peppered with insightful examples based on detailed research and leavened with anecdote, George Goodwin, author of Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution, brings to the foreground the often shadowy but crucial role of the media in the Anglo-American dispute between 1763 and 1783 ---- from inciting violent opposition to the Stamp Act, destroying the reputations of successive colonial Governors, winning the support of informed British opinion at the outbreak of War, to establishing and safeguarding General Washington’s authority at times of seemingly inevitable defeat. George Goodwin is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and also the 2018/19 Bewsey Family Fellow at George Washington’s Presidential Library at Mount Vernon in Virginia. His Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution: from the Boston Radicals to George Washington is now published in 2026 by Yale University Press in Britain and America. Among his previous books is Benjamin Franklin in London: the British Life of America’s Founding Father, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and George is also Hon. Author in Residence at Benjamin Franklin House in London.

How to book: Book via Zoom link below

Price: Free & open to all. Recordings of talk will be available to HA members.

Website: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_st4bitt4TkeSG_YJPa4B2w

Organiser: HA

Lecturer: George Goodwin