On Wednesday 28 October the Engagement & Advancement Events Team held the 32nd Wellington Lecture online. Established in 1989 with an endowment from the Spanish Ambassador, this year’s lecture was presented by the University’s former Professor of English, Emma Clery. Emma delivered a fascinating lecture on “Jane Austen and the Duke of Wellington: Confluences of Empire in Wartime”.
Over 260 guests from around the world (including alumni, staff, students and members of our global community) joined us online for the lecture, hosted by Professor Mark E. Smith, President and Vice Chancellor, with a Q&A chaired by Professor Chris Woolgar.
In Professor Clery’s lecture, she discussed the historical connections between the Duke of Wellington and Jane Austen and her family.
Chawton House
We were also delighted that the Duke of Wellington was able to present the prestigious Wellington Prize. This prize is awarded to an outstanding student whose work includes elements in the general area of Iberian Studies or Military History or British Political History or Government of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This year’s prize was awarded to Alfie Banks whose dissertation was on ‘The Imperial Afterlife of Warren Hastings, 1818–1947’.
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