History Research Seminar - Dr Adam Morton
Armstrong Building, room 1.05
Ridicule, Images, and anti-clericalism in early-eighteenth England
You are warmly invited to the third talk in our History Research Seminar Series for Semester 2
Dr Adam Morton will be delivering a seminar on his paper, Ridicule, Images, and anti-clericalism in early-eighteenth England.
‘This paper considers the role of graphic satire in lobbying for the civil rights of dissenting Protestants during the 1730s. It focusses on a series of prints ridiculing Edmund Gibson, the Bishop of London, who was the leading churchmen in the government of Robert Walpole. The prints were merciless in their mockery of Gibson. But what purpose did that mockery serve? What did visual sources do that other types of print could not?’
Chair: TBC
Location: ARMB 1.05
