GUILDFORD MUSEUM LECTURE SERIES 2003
This successful lecture series was started in 1994 and aims to encourage public interest in archaeology, history and the fine arts. For the third year running the lectures come from one of the finest History Departments in the country and from the distinguished Centre for Victorian Studies - at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Thursday 4th December 2003	Utopia and eugenics in Britain in the late nineteenth century. Professor Gregory Cleaeys explores the impact of Social Darwinism on Britons' imagined aspirations for their future as shown in the utopian literature from about 1875 to 1900.
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8 January 2004	Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess in Malaya. Professor Tony Stockwell focuses on two authors who scrutinised British imperial experience in contrasting periods of security and insurgency.
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Thursday 5 February 2004	Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement in the United States. Dr John Kirk discusses the role of the symbolic leader in relation to the wider movement which existed long before him and in areas he never visited.
All lectures take place in the Guildhall in Guildford High Street and start at 7.30pm. For booking forms please contact the Lecture Series Co-ordinator at Guildford Museum, Castle Arch, Guildford, Surrey GU 1 3SX. Tel: 01483 444752 or email us at [email protected]