Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 28th March 2025

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Reading School, Lecture Theatre

Description: The whimsical works of PG Wodehouse, with their none-too-bright young men in spats and their fearsome aunts, might seem an idyllic world away from the hard realities of British imperialism. Yet Wodehouse was himself the product of colonial Hong Kong and of Dulwich College, proud alma mater of the Empire hero Sir Ernest Shackleton. This talk will show how Wodehouse's view of Empire reflected and contributed to a fundamental change in British attitudes towards the Empire in the 'long weekend' of the inter-war years and beyond.

How to book: Bookings not required. Pre-lecture supper bookings to r.a.houlbrooke@reading.ac.uk

Price: £3 - Free to HA members and Associatesand students

Email: sexton44@gmail.com

Organiser: Reading Branch HA.

Lecturer: Dr Sean Lang (Anglia Ruskin University)

Region: South-East England

Branch: Reading