The East India Company and country houses in the Welsh Marches
Event Type: Branch
Takes Place: 10th December 2025
Time: 7pm
Venue: Via Zoom
Description: This talk is based on the chapter of the same name in Charlotte Williams and Neil Evans ed. "Globalising Welsh Studies" University of Wales Press 2025 Eleanor Stephenson is a historian and curator working on the histories of art and science in the British Empire. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge, researching the Royal Society’s connections to slavery in Jamaica from 1660 to 1714. Her research has been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Association for Art History and The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme. She has worked on exhibitions related to the British Empire at the Fitzwilliam Museum (Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance), the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and the Science Museum.
How to book: Zoom link via email
Price: Free
Email: Edbury@cardiff.ac.uk
Organiser: Cardiff Branch HA
Lecturer: Eleanor Stephenson
Region: Wales
Branch: Cardiff