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From Settlers to Tourists: Coming to America

Wed 8 Jul 2026, 1pm

Djanogly Theatre

£3.50 (free concessions)

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1 hour

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We the People exhibition co-curator Dr Richard Gaunt, School of Humanities, University of Nottingham, explores the British tourist trail to America and what this reveals about the relationship between the two countries in the century after US Independence.

This talk accompanies the exhibition jointly curated by Dr Richard Gaunt and Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham.

Top image: ‘The American Congress’, from John Hampden, A General History of England (1784). University of Nottingham Special Collection Over. X DA30.H2

Map of Boston, inset within map of United States and British America North; c.1860. University of Nottingham Ne C 11437
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We The People

America's Fight for Freedom and Beyond

A free exhibition from Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham

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