Lecture: Maps and Society - 'Mapping Revolution, Mapping Slavery: the Vicomte de Rochambeau and Cartographic Dreams of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the Caribbean'

February 27, 2023
detail from a manuscript map of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean.

This Thursday, our Curator of Maps and Prints, Bertie Mandelblatt, will give a lecture in the Warburg Institute's Maps and Society series:

The talk features an exciting new JCB acquisition: a large format manuscript map of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, made in the revolutionary era of the early 1790s.

This Thursday 2 March 2023, 5.00pm (UK Time). Admission free. All are welcome. The 2022-2023 academic year will see a combination of virtual meetings (via Zoom), and in-person sessions in the Warburg Institute lecture room. Enquiries: c.delano-smith@qmul.ac.uk