Annual French Departmental Lecture 2024: lecture by Dr John Gallagher: 'Learning French with Claude Mauger: the life and legacy of a seventeenth-century celebrity teacher'
Annual French Departmental Lecture 2024: lecture by Dr John Gallagher: 'Learning French with Claude Mauger: the life and legacy of a seventeenth-century celebrity teacher'. Dr John Gallagher is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leeds. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge, he is a historian of language, migration, and education in the early modern period. His first book, Learning Languages in Early Modern England, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. He is currently researching migration and multilingualism in early modern London, and is interested in the global history of the multilingual city in the early modern period. In 2023, he won a Philip Leverhulme Prize for History. He is Co-Editor of the Historical Journal (Cambridge University Press), a contributor to the London Review of Books, and a regular presenter on BBC Radio 3.
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Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute
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One-time event
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Alumni,Arts and Culture,Lectures and Seminars,Public,Special events
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Researchers,Undergrad,Postgrad,Faculty & Staff,Public
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Sarah Alyn Stacey
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Neill Theatre
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