The Historical Association: A Night at the Inn: the Elite Experience of Empire 1650-1850
Create a free account to applyExplore how elite travellers moved through inns in Scotland, Virginia and Jamaica, and how these spaces helped sustain imperial power and make distant places feel familiar and British. Professor Dan Maudlin of the University of Plymouth leads this in-person public lecture.
This lecture explores the experiences of an elite traveller moving through the North Atlantic world between 1650 and 1850. It uses the setting of inns to show that they were not simply places to eat, drink and sleep, but important spaces in the making of British and Anglophone imperial culture.
The talk examines how principal inns in places such as Scotland, Virginia and Jamaica provided the facilities and material surroundings that ruling elites needed to sustain their power. It also considers how these environments shaped perceptions of place, helping travellers feel at home in spaces described as familiar, civilised and British.
The event is led by Professor Dan Maudlin of the University of Plymouth and is organised by the Historical Association’s Plymouth branch. It is an in-person public lecture taking place at the University of Plymouth, with booking available through Eventbrite.
Professor Dan Maudlin, University of Plymouth
23 February 2027, 19:00
Location
Free for national and local members of the Historical Association and Plymouth University students. Visitors £6.00, concessions £4.00.
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