History Lectures
Lecturer: Alan Hertz
Event Hours(1)
Alan’s history lectures are have been running on Zoom but the last lecture of the series will take place on Wednesday 21st July at The Avenue Club. He will be back in the Autumn.
“London and the World 1570-1897: 10 moments”
The series will trace the emergence of London as the first modern metropolis. It will put those local developments in a global context by comparing significant events and circumstances here in London with what was happening simultaneously elsewhere in the world.
About the lecturer
Alan is Professor of Humanities and Head of Liberal Arts at Hult International Business School. He is American by birth and nationality, but grew up largely in India and Pakistan, and has lived in the UK since 1977. He studied at Yale and the University of Toronto and obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is married to Linda Collister and has three very English children.
Alan has been teaching the history of London to undergraduates for almost 30 years. His chief research interests are in Victorian poetry and journalism, and the cultural history of London. His teaching practice has always been to anchor the general in the particular, making as much use as possible of storytelling and field trips.
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