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Sir Ross Cranston, a recently retired judge of the High Court, Queens Bench Division, and Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, will be speaking on legal issues of topical interest.
London was crucially dependent on continental Europe for its economic resilience in the mid-sixteenth century, and Sir Thomas Gresham’s fortune piggy-backed off the special relationship with Antwerp.
Using contemporary print and theatre, this lecture will discuss how England and Englishness was defined, even as the boundaries between the home and the world became increasingly diffuse.