Making Harewood and the Modern World
Talk
Jonathan Finch, Department of Archaeology
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Event date
Wednesday 22 May 2019, 6pm to 7pm
Location
King's Manor, Exhibition Square (Map)
Audience
Open to the public
Admission
Free admission, booking not required
Event details
Department of Archaeology 40th Anniversary Open Lectures Series
Jonathan Finch will talk on Making Harewood and the Modern World. He will explore how making the Harewood House at the end of the eighteenth century removed the earlier medieval landscape and Gawthorpe Hall, and drew upon the family's involvement in the Atlantic slave trade, based on his excavations at Harewood and fieldwork in the Caribbean.
Other events in this series include:
- Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial Ground at Sutton Hoo
- Objects and encounters at Songo Mnara
- Star Carr
- Feeding Stonehenge
- Roman fort at Malton