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Lecture 4: State and Economy
Historians are familiar with the idea of the nation as an ‘imagined community’ that bound people across time and space from the late 18th century, predicated on modern communications. This lecture extends this idea into the 20th century and to a wider range of ‘invisible structures’ that were made more palpable via languages of social science, political and especially economic structures.
Date:
12 February 2026, 17:00
Venue:
Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details:
South School
Speaker:
Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Belinda Clark
