Centre for the Americas Inaugural Lecture

We are delighted to announce that Professor Philip D. Morgan, will be delivering the inaugural lecture for the Department of History's new Centre for the Americas on Wednesday 22 February at 6pm, 'A Tale of Two Hamiltons: North American-Caribbean Crossings in the Eighteenth Century.'

Professor Morgan is the Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and this years Harmsworth Professor at Oxford. His publications include Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998), which won the Bancroft Prize, American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Award, Frederick Douglass Prize and Jacques Barzun Prize.

A drinks reception will follow. All are welcome.