Empire & after

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Empire & After A history symposium in Bath

4–6 November 2016 Richard Bassett | Professor Simon Dixon Professor Robin Lane Fox | Tom Holland Dr Tristram Hunt | Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Dr Philip Mansel | Stephanie Williams

Empire & After

The Speakers

A history symposium in Bath 4–6 November 2016 (md 930) 3 days • Prices from £490 Speakers: Richard Bassett Professor Simon Dixon Professor Robin Lane Fox Tom Holland Dr Tristram Hunt mp Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Dr Philip Mansel Stephanie Williams Continuing our highly successful series of symposia, Empire & After brings together eight historians for a dozen talks on one of the most controversial of historical issues. The speakers have been chosen for their pre-eminence, their mastery of their subject and their calibre as speakers.

There are also panel discussions, Q&A slots and plenty of opportunities to engage with the speakers informally.

It needs hardly to be said that Bath is the best preserved and most beautiful Georgian city in England. The symposium itself takes place at the Assembly Rooms, which opened in 1771 and are architecturally outstanding even by Bath standards (and made famous by their Jane Austen associations).

This is a fully inclusive residential weekend, with three hotels to choose from to suit different budgets (see page 7). Breakfasts, lunches, mid-session refreshments and a dinner are included in the package, and there is also an exclusive drinks reception in the Victoria Art Gallery.

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Richard Bassett is a journalist and historian. He read Law at Cambridge and obtained an MA in the History of Art at the Courtauld. He was a staff foreign correspondent for The Times throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, covering central and eastern Europe. His books include Austrians: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery, Traveller’s guide to Vienna with John Lehmann, Balkan Hours and A History of the Habsburg Army (2014).

Professor Simon Dixon began his career in Cambridge, as Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, and then moved via Glasgow to the chair of Modern History at the University of Leeds. Since 2008, he has been Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History at UCL. He writes mainly on the eighteenth century and the Russian Orthodox Church. Catherine the Great (Profile Books, 2009) was shortlisted for the LongmanHistory Today Book of the Year Prize. He makes regular visits to Russia as chairman of the literary committee for the Russian Booker Prize.

Front cover: ‘And so for three hours the young English soldier breasted alone this great flood of furious mutiny, and overawed his enemies by the consummate gallantry of his bearing’, wood engraving c. 1890.

Professor Robin Lane Fox was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History from 1977–2012 at New College Oxford and University Reader in Ancient History from 1990. His books and articles include award-winning works on Alexander the Great and the relation between the pagan and early Christian religions of the Roman Empire. He has taught Greek and Latin literature, Greek and Roman history and early Islamic history in which he held an Oxford Research Fellowship. He was the main historical advisor to Oliver Stone on his film Alexander (2004). He is also the gardening correspondent of the Financial Times.

Dr Tristram Hunt is Labour Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central, and Senior Lecturer in British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He took a First Class degree and then doctorate in History from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of numerous award-winning books, including Building Jerusalem: The Rise & Fall of the Victorian City, Friedrich Engels: The Frock-Coated Communist, and Ten Cities that Made an Empire.

Prior to entering Parliament, Dr Hunt was a regular broadcaster on radio and television, and Trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Dr Philip Mansel is a historian of France and the Middle East. His books include Louis XVIII (1981); Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire (1995); Levant: Splendour & Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010) and Aleppo: The Rise & Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City (2016). He was a founder of the Society for Court Studies and is a founding trustee of the Levantine Heritage Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature and in 2012 he received the London Library Life in Literature Award. He is currently writing a biography of Louis XIV.

Tom Holland is a historian of antiquity and the early Middle Ages: author of Rubicon, Persian Fire, Millennium and In The Shadow Of The Sword, and the translator for Penguin Classics of Herodotus’ Histories. His most recent book, Dynasty: The Rise & Fall of the House of Caesar was published in September 2015. His biography of Æthelstan, the first in Penguin’s monarchs of Britain series, is published in June 2016. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History, and of documentaries on topics ranging from the origins of Islam to dinosaurs.

Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.

He has worked extensively on ancient Greek and Persian history (and the history of Islamic Iran) and is author of Aphrodite’s Tortoise: the veiled woman of Ancient Greece, Ctesias’ History of Persia, and Women’s Dress in the Ancient Greek World. Forthcoming work includes The Culture of Animals in Antiquity and Esther: an Iconographic Commentary. He is general editor of Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia and co-general editor of Screening Antiquity.

Stephanie Williams was born in Canada, and has a degree in history from Wellesley College, Massachusetts. A former journalist, she has published numerous articles and books on architecture and history. Her most recent include Olga’s Story (2005), a memoir of her grandmother from Siberia which was BBC Book of the Week.

Running the Show: The Extraordinary Stories of the Men who Governed the British Empire (2012) was greeted with critical acclaim.

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The Programme

Empire & After 4–6 November 2016

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Afternoon session 3.15pm–6.45pm

Morning session 9.30am–12.15pm

Morning session 9.30–1.00pm

Professor Robin Lane Fox ‘Alexander: Macedonian Conqueror or Persian Heir?’

Tom Holland ‘The Caliphate: Executioner of Antiquity?’

Dr Tristram Hunt mp ‘Ten Cities that Made an Empire: A History of British Imperialism through some of the world’s greatest cities’

Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ‘Persian Past and Iranian Present: Cyrus the Great in the Iranian Mind’ Tea break Professor Robin Lane Fox ‘Pax Romana: History’s Golden Age?’ Tom Holland ‘When did the Roman Empire fall?’

Evening, from 8.00pm Dinner for all participants

Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ‘Timur & the Art of Princes: Timurid-Mongol Legacies in Iran’ Refreshment break Professor Simon Dixon ‘The Russians & their Empire: from Ivan the Terrible to Nicholas II’ Lunch

Afternoon session 1.30pm–3.00pm Stephanie Williams ‘White Stalkers on the Beach: personal stories of British Empire builders from the Gold Coast to Fiji’ Panel discussion with the speakers

Illustration, top: Bath’s Royal Crescent, detail from a wood engraving of 1888.

Evening, 6.30pm–7.30pm

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Private reception in the Victoria Art Gallery.

This is followed by an optional dinner (booked in advance)

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Richard Bassett ‘Austria-Hungary’s Last War revisited: success and failure in a multi-national army’ Refreshment break Professor Simon Dixon ‘The Collapse of the Soviet Empire: the USSR after Stalin’ Dr Philip Mansel ‘The painful death of the Ottoman Empire: from Sarajevo to Aleppo’ Lunch

Afternoon session 2.00pm–3.30pm Dr Tristram Hunt mp ‘When Will We Stop or Start Apologising for Empire? – Imperialism, History and Modern Britain’ Panel discussion with the speakers

The Architecture of Bath

Empire & After 4–6 November 2016

BOOKING FORM

Pre-symposium tour 3–4 November 2016 Lecturer: Dr Geoffrey Tyack Bath first became a resort town in Roman times, but its modern reincarnation dates from the 18th century. It was then that a succession of architects and entrepreneurs succeeded in creating one of the supreme achievements of European architecture and urban design, inspired by the memory of the Roman past but adapted to satisfy the taste and desires of the Georgian aristocracy and merchant classes. Several of the finest of these buildings will be visited and we will also explore some of the lesser-known corners of this most fascinating of cities.

The tour starts at 1.45pm on Thursday 3rd November and finishes at 1.00pm on Friday 4th November. Access to the tour is exclusive to those who are participants on the symposium. Note there is quite a lot of walking involved.

Dr Geoffrey Tyack is an architectural historian with a particular interest in the 18th to 20th centuries in Britain and Europe. He is author of Oxford: an Architectural Guide and John Nash: Architect of the Picturesque and editor of the Georgian Group Journal.

Full details will be available in May 2016.

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A. Travelodge Bath Waterside

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Accommodation & prices

Empire & After 4–6 November 2016

A. Travelodge Bath Waterside

B. Hilton Bath City Hotel

C. The Francis Hotel

A large, no frills hotel located less than 5 minutes’ walk from Bath Spa station and 20 minutes from the Assembly Rooms. Bedrooms are plain and simply furnished. Most rooms have a view of the canal basin. Bathrooms all have bathtubs with shower attachments. There is a simple restaurant, a bar and parking is available at £6 per day. WiFi access is £3 per 24 hours.

A contemporary 4-star hotel located just a few minutes’ walk from the Assembly Rooms.

The décor is classic and rooms are well appointed.

Rooms face either the street at the front of the hotel or the Avon and hills to the rear. The majority of bathrooms only have a shower.

The hotel has a grill restaurant and a bar. The hotel does not own a car park but there is a secure public car park close to the hotel costing £25 per exit. WiFi is available free of charge throughout the hotel.

A modern, 4-star boutique hotel set across several converted Georgian terraces on sought-after Queen’s Square. Decorated in a contemporary Regency style, rooms are very well appointed. The majority of bathrooms have walkin showers. There is a bar and direct access from the hotel to the adjoining restaurant, Brasserie Blanc. Free car parking is allocated on a first-come first served basis. Free WiFi is available throughout.

Prices per person: Double/twin (two sharing): £490 Double room for single occupancy: £570

Prices per person: Standard double/twin (two sharing): £660 Deluxe double/twin (two sharing): £700 Double room for single occupancy: £770

Prices per person: Standard double/twin (two sharing): £790 Superior double/twin (two sharing): £830 Double room for single occupancy: £920

Included in the price

Extending your stay

Making a booking

Room and breakfast for two nights, admission to all talks and discussions, refreshments at the conference, two buffet lunches (Saturday and Sunday), drinks reception and Friday dinner. The price varies according to the hotel and room category – see above.

Please contact us for a quote for extra nights either side of the weekend.

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Illustration: Bath Abbey and pump room, watercolour by Walter Tyndale, publ. 1927.

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