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CANCELLED: Britain – the Question of Written Constitutions and the World Since 1776

After the American and French Revolutions, new-style written constitutions gradually came to be viewed as an essential symbol of a modern state. Britain fought against these two revolutions and has famously retained its un-codified constitution.

Date & Time

Monday
Feb. 11, 2013
4:00pm – 5:30pm ET

Location

6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

After the American and French Revolutions, new-style written constitutions gradually came to be viewed as an essential symbol of a modern state. Britain, however, both fought against these two revolutions and has famously retained its un-codified constitution. Despite this, the impact of the new constitutions on ideas and politics in Britain was a profound one and has changed markedly over time; while Britain's own impact on the writing of other constitutions has been enormous. This seminar presentation explores these paradoxes.

Linda Colley, CBE, FBA, is Shelby M.C. Davis Professor of History at Princeton University.  She has taught at Cambridge, the LSE, and Yale as well as Princeton.  Her books include In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-60 (1982); Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992, Wolfson History Prize, 1993); and Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 (2002).

Reservations requested because of limited seating:
HAPP@wilsoncenter.org or 202-691-4166

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Linda Colley

Linda Colley

Shelby M.C. Davis Professor of History, Princeton University
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History and Public Policy Program

The History and Public Policy Program makes public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, facilitates scholarship based on those records, and uses these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs.  Read more

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