TalkTalks
A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England
Price
£9–10
£10 standard; £9 members and concessions.
About
Historian Lauren Working examines how knowledge, people and resources from the Americas shaped English culture during the Renaissance.
The lecture traces the presence of the Americas in Elizabethan art, fashion and literature, from material objects and Indigenous knowledge to stories of treasure and colonisation. The source presents it as a lunchtime lecture in the Ondaatje Wing Theatre.
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