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 February 24, 2012
| Time: | 2:45-4:30 p.m. |
| Description: | Historian Andrew Roberts presents "Poetry, Anthology, and Criticism: Michael Roberts and the BBC," a seminar on the work of his father - poet, anthologist, critic, and teacher Michael Roberts - for the European Service of the BBC during World War II.
From September 1941, Roberts was in the Intelligence Department, examining the reception of BBC broadcasts to German-occupied and neutral Europe. In the latter part of the war he held a newly created job supplying material to editors of the clandestine press in Europe.
Andrew Roberts is professor of the history of Africa, University of London. He has worked in Uganda, Zambia and Tanzania while spending his scholarly career at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is a past editor of the Journal of African History. His publications include "A History of Zambia" and "The Colonial Moment in Africa." He is the editor of the "Cambridge History of Africa, 1905-40."
Coming on Friday, March 2: Michael Charlesworth on Derek Jarman and British films, paintings, poetry and prose. |
| Location: | Harry Ransom Center (HRC), Tom Lea Rooms 3.206 |
| Contact: | Holly Lynn McCarthy |
| Sponsor: | Faculty Seminar on British Studies |
| Admission: | Free and open to the public |
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