Writing histories of difference: new histories of nation and empire

Writing histories of difference: new histories of nation and empire
Author/editor: Department publications
Publisher: Allan Martin Lecture, ANU
Year published: 2005
School/Centre: School of History

Abstract

 In her Allan Martin Lecture for 2005, Catherine Hall focuses on the writing of national histories in nineteenth-century Britain. Through the life of Thomas Babington Macaulay, the most celebrated historian of nineteenth-century England, Professor Hall analyses the social, cultural, political and psychic dimensions of the relationship between nation and empire.

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