Pioneers of Local Thinking, 1740-1820
Browse all the latest announcements and recordings for our British Academy-funded series on eighteenth-century artists and writers who reimagined local identity and the environment.
Jenny Uglow: ‘A Year with Gilbert White’
Summer Lecture: Tuesday 17 June 2025, 4pm, UoB Arts Building
Pioneers of Local Thinking: Polly Atkin
Listen to the recording of our fourth talk on Pioneers of Local Thinking
Pioneers of Local Thinking, 1740-1820
Read more about our new project and seminar series for 2023-24
“To the Lakes!”: Local artistic perspectives
Pioneers of Local Thinking Seminar: Monday 20 May 2024, with guest speaker Jeff Cowton MBE
‘Seeds, to our eye invisible’:
Pioneers of Local Thinking Seminar: Monday 22 January 2024 with Dr James Bainbridge
Cotman, Aubrey, and the Neglected Places
Pioneers of Local Thinking Seminar: 27 November 2023 with Prof. Peter Davidson