OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
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In the reign of Elizabeth I, the contested claims of English sovereignty over Scotland, based in the mythic “British” history of Brutus and King Arthur, were replaced by a poetic and chorographic image of England itself as an island with no land border. How did this happen and what did it mean for relations between England and Scotland? This lecture will explore those questions, tracing changes and transformations through war propaganda, river poetry, choreography, antiquarianism and cartography. It will conclude with some discussion of Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1596). The lecture aims at revising assumptions about the inclusivity of “British history” in English poetry.
