Using Art Sources to Understand the Restoration with Professor Lydia Hamlett

The Murray Edwards Sixth Form Lecture Series

Hosted at Murray Edward College, the Sixth Form Lecture Series will dive into English Literature, History of Art, French, Spanish, Classics and many more Arts and language-based subjects by exploring many commonly studied A Level texts and topics in new and interesting ways.

Join us at Murray Edwards College (Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0SH) from 17:30 for refreshments and informal conversations with current students. The lectures themselves will begin at 18:00 and be an hour in duration.

These lectures are completely free and open to the public.

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Using Art Sources to Understand the Restoration with Professor Lydia Hamlett

After 11 years as a republic, the Stuart Monarchy was restored in England, Scotland and Ireland under the reign of Charles II. Upon regaining the throne, Charles reinstated a number of the cultural, political and religious institutions that had been suppressed during Cromwell's reign.

In this lecture, Teaching Professor of Early Modern Visual Culture at Professional & Continuing Education (PACE), Professor Lydia Hamlett, will discuss what we can learn about this period and its monarch using visual media from the time.

Professor Hamlett's research centres on mural painting in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is currently writing her second monograph, on early modern murals and the senses, and co-editing a book on the Women’s Art Collection.  Before coming back to Cambridge, Professor Hamlett worked in research and curating at the Tate and National Trust.

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