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	Podcast:		Field Notes Seminar
	Episode:		Field Notes - 1 November 2012 - Antiquarianism. The Eighteenth-Century Antiquarian
	Category:		Science & Medicine
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	Publish Date:		2012-11-05 04:24:35
	Description:		Allison Ksiazkiewicz (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge) This seminar will discuss three articles that deal with the role of antiquity in late-Enlightenment Britain. Using Edward Daniel Clarke’s (1769–1822) travels through Greece and Levant as a case study, the first article considers the meaning of Classical antiquity for an emerging British empire. The second article addresses antiquarianism and its importance in cultivating national identity in Britain. This argument develops through a detailed history of the Society of Antiquaries and its role as a public institution. The final article examines notions of private and public life in eighteenth-century historiography.
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