Trinity Hall History Society

Here are our events to look forward to in Michaelmas!

Dear all,
We're very excited to announce our final event of the year - tomorrow (Thursday) we have Dan Edelstein, professor of History and Political Science at Stanford and a specialist on 18th century France, giving a talk on "The Ages of Revolution".
This should be a very interesting talk, so please join us at 5.40pm for free wine before the talk at 6pm in the Lecture Theatre.
All are welcome :)

Dear all,
Later today we will be publicising our last talk of the year, which is on Thursday!
In the meantime, however, we've been sent this flyer for those interested in German studies. It is on the same day as our final talk, but you might just about be able to attend both!

For anyone interested in historical theatre, the student-written and directed play 'Repubblica' will be performed for one night only on April 14th from 19:30-20:30 in Fitzwilliam Auditorium. They will then be taking the play to the Edinburgh Fringe in August.

Bonham Bax, a first-year undergraduate at Girton College is the writer and director of the play. At the heart of 'Repubblica' is a foreshadowing of the contemporary state of Italian politics during the post-World War II period.

"Set in post-WW2 Italy, a teenage girl emigrates from wealthy Rome to an isolated island in the xenophobic South. However, when she falls for an unprejudiced but powerful local figure, she soon finds herself caught in a political plot that will tear both her and the identity of the nation apart. The untold story of the birth of modern Italy is presented as both a tragic love story and Grimm fairy tale."

To purchase tickets please click on this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/repubblica-uk-premiere-tickets-506472592157

** TERMCARD **
Content warning: self-harm and su***de, upsetting content.

Trinity Hall History Society is (at long last) now ready to reveal our Lent term, after a bit of a delay (our apologies). We're hosting two brilliant speaker events this term, starting Thursday next week (16th) with a discussion of sensitive histories and the historical archive.

Please note that our first topic may not be suitable for all. If you need more information about it, please feel free to send an email to [email protected], and we'll fill you in as much as we can.

As always, our drinks receptions begin at 5.40pm, and the talks at 6. All are welcome to attend & to join us at formal hall afterwards :)

**UPCOMING CONFERENCE**

Interested in hearing about Stuart-Venetian relations and cultural exchange? Come along to an upcoming conference and Evensong on the Stuart Serenissima, taking place on 21 January 2023 in Cambridge.

The conference is from 9.30-17.00 at Trinity College Winstanley Lecture Hall, followed by an Evensong at 18.00 in King’s College Chapel. Registration is FREE **but essential**. Tea and coffee breaks will be provided throughout the day. A buffet lunch at Trinity College will be available at a cost of £16.50 per person.

Registration, program, and further information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stuart-serenissima-anglo-venetian-cultural-exchange-in-the-17th-century-tickets-461909763537

For those who cannot attend in person, the conference will be streamed via Teams. Please contact [email protected] directly for a link. Those who plan to watch online do not need to register on Eventbrite.

**DETAILS**

The seventeenth century has long been recognised as an especially fertile moment for Anglo-Venetian cultural exchange. The Italian historian Enrico de Mas thought it so significant that he proposed the label ‘Seicento Anglo-Veneto’ to define the period. In recent years, there has been a flurry of new studies on Anglo-Venetian relations from multiple disciplinary perspectives (including Art History, Musicology, History, and Literary Studies). This growing body of research raises new questions about the period as a whole. What was it about Stuart England that engendered such sustained interest in the Republic of Venice? How did the relationship between England and Venice differ in the seventeenth century from the centuries that preceded and followed? Does the term ‘Seicento Anglo-Veneto’ retain its value? If so, how should we define it, and when did it start and end?

The era started with a renewal of diplomatic relations with Venice at the accession of James VI & I in 1603 – part of a wider rapprochement with Catholic Europe following the death of the excommunicated Elizabeth I. But this period was also characterised by continued deep suspicions of Catholicism in England, which brought immense political upheaval and culminated in the rejection of Stuart heirs in favour of the Protestant Hanoverians in 1714. As Venice was a Catholic country with its own fraught relationship to the Papacy, the story of English relations with the Republic cuts across expected geopolitical and confessional binaries. Moreover, English commerce had begun to threaten the Republic’s hegemony over Eastern Mediterranean trade relations in an age of European expansion and proto-globalisation; the two polities had also become rival maritime empires.

Stuart Serenissima: Anglo-Venetian Cultural Exchange in the 17th Century A conference and Anglo-Venetian choral evensong, exploring connections between England and Venice in the seventeenth century.

**EVENT UPDATE**

As I’m sure you’re aware, we’re currently scheduled to host television producer Richard Bradley in just over one week’s time, who will be speaking to us about his career in television. Fortunately, we’ve recently managed to secure the Lecture Theatre for this talk, meaning we won’t need to use a sign-up sheet – **everyone is welcome!**

As usual, we’ll be holding a drinks reception before the talk. To give us a general idea of how many drinks we’ll have to order for this reception it would be much appreciated if you could express your interest in our event using the form below.

https://forms.gle/9ShxTn5FXRfj2REN8

Thank you :)

Richard Bradley event interest Trinity Hall alumnus and Chief Creative Officer of Lion TV, Richard Bradley, will be speaking to the society on November 24th about his career in television. Bradley has over his career worked on a number of historical programmes, including the much-loved Horrible Histories (CBBC) and Mary Beard’s...

For anyone interested, our fellow historians at Gonville and Caius (The Brooke Society) are hosting an event tomorrow, Tuesday 8th, about Lebanon and twentieth-century Lebanese history! Hosted by Darwin College's Dr Chloe Kattar, the event is scheduled to start at 6pm in Caius' Bateman Auditorium and should last around an hour.

Dr Kattar's upcoming research focuses centrally on right-wing internationalism and the response of conservative writers to the rise of leftism at the start of the 20th century.