Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Contested Histories & Multiple Identities - with Professor Martin Daunton
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Contested Histories & Multiple Identities - with Professor Martin Daunton
On Tuesday 26 February, the British historian, Professor Martin Daunton, delivered a public lecture at Cumberland Lodge, on 'Contested Histories & Multiple Identities: The Place of the Past in the Present'.
The lecture marked the end of a two-day conference on Difficult Histories & Positive Identities, held on 25-26 February.
Martin Daunton has been emeritus professor of economic history at the University of Cambridge since his retirement in 2015.
He was previously the Astor Professor of British History at University College London. Prior to that, he was Master of Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2014.
He has written extensively on British economic and social history, in particular on economic and social policy relating to distributive justice in taxation, housing and welfare.
He also served for eight years as a trustee of the National Maritime Museum, where he was involved in discussions over the interpretation of imperial trade, and he is currently a Commissioner of Historic England.
View all episodes
By Cumberland LodgeOn Tuesday 26 February, the British historian, Professor Martin Daunton, delivered a public lecture at Cumberland Lodge, on 'Contested Histories & Multiple Identities: The Place of the Past in the Present'.
The lecture marked the end of a two-day conference on Difficult Histories & Positive Identities, held on 25-26 February.
Martin Daunton has been emeritus professor of economic history at the University of Cambridge since his retirement in 2015.
He was previously the Astor Professor of British History at University College London. Prior to that, he was Master of Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2014.
He has written extensively on British economic and social history, in particular on economic and social policy relating to distributive justice in taxation, housing and welfare.
He also served for eight years as a trustee of the National Maritime Museum, where he was involved in discussions over the interpretation of imperial trade, and he is currently a Commissioner of Historic England.