CMHC and Nineteenth-Century Centre Visiting Speaker Seminar – 27 November

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A cartoon of Joseph Chamberlain showing his distinctive monocle and orchid in jacket buttonhole.
Yale Center for British Art. Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0)

The Friends of the Centre for Midlands History and Cultures in collaboration with the Nineteenth-Century Centre welcomes:

Dr Victoria Mills (Birkbeck)

“Orchid Jo”: Empire, Satire, and Political Self-Fashioning

Narratives of nineteenth-century orchid collecting and their role in constructions of personal and national identity.

Wednesday 27 November 5:00-6:30pm

In person: Arts Building Room 104, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus, B15 2TT

and Online: via Zoom

Meeting ID: 861 8742 3092
Passcode: 430045

You can read more about Vicky’s work here: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8005084/victoria-mills

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