Book Launch in Honour of Peter Borsay

Posted in books, lectures (to attend), obituaries, online learning by Editor on September 8, 2023

Book Launch in Honour of Peter Borsay
Online and in-person, University of Leicester, 29 September 2023, 3pm

The Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester will mark the publication of Peter Borsay’s last book, The Invention of the English Landscape c. 1700–1939, with a symposium in honour of the late professor, who passed away in 2020. Free and open to all, the event will take place on Friday, 29th September 2023, from 15.00 until 17.00, via Teams Live and in person in the Attenborough Film Theatre. Please contact hypirfinance@le.ac.uk with any questions.

The symposium will be chaired by Professor Rosemary Sweet with the following panel of speakers:
• Penelope J. Corfield (President of the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies)
• Richard Coopey (Emeritus Senior Lecturer, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University)
• Katy Layton Jones (School of History, Open University)
• Keith Snell (Emeritus Professor of English Local History, University of Leicester)