Professor Heidi Tworek and the Department of History welcome you to an afternoon event to celebrate Dr. Tworek’s new book News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945. Join us for a discussion led by Dr. Tworek on the major themes of her book. Professors Eagle Glassheim (Department Head, UBC History) and Mary Lynn Young (UBC Graduate School of […]
*Please note this lecture has been cancelled.* Speaker: Priya Satia (Stanford) The biggest gun-making firm in 18th-century Britain was owned by a Quaker family, the Galtons of Birmingham. They were major suppliers of guns to the slave trade in West Africa, the East India Company, settlers and trading companies in North America, and the British […]
CANCELLED -Pacifists Making Guns: The Galton Family and Britain’s Industrial Revolution