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By Gautham Rao February 21, 2020

From Hallway Conversation to the WMQ

  This article was the result of a moment of enormous luck.  I can remember exactly where I was when it happened: Saturday, April 11, 2015, in the lobby of the Massachusetts Historical Society, somewhere between 10:30 and 10:45 in the morning, in between sessions at the wonderful conference, “‘So… Read More

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By Matthew Dziennik February 20, 2020

Refugees of the American Revolution … and George Orwell

“New York’s Refugees and Political Authority in Revolutionary America,” WMQ (Jan. 2020) began with an intellectual humbling.  It came at a brown bag at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where I was presenting on my research.  I laid… Read More

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By Ali MacDonald February 04, 2020

You Just Had to Be There? Thoughts on Transcription, Inventories, and Materiality in Understanding Carlton House

Last month I took a day out of my research trip to visit George IV: Art & Spectacle, currently on display at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace (Nov 15, 2019 – May 3, 2020). In a sense this exhibition seeks to rehabilitate our long-standing conception of George as a bad son, bad father, bad husband, and bad… Read More

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