Registration now open for 'The Prince and the Patriots' Conference

Building on the History of Parliament’s ‘Politics and patronage: a tercentenary colloquium for Frederick, Prince of Wales’ conference in 2007, Oliver Cox (University of Oxford) and Jennifer Scammell (Newcastle University) are organising an interdisciplinary one-day conference on the opposition to Sir Robert Walpole. Registration details are as follows:

- This interdisciplinary one-day conference will bring together both established and early career scholars from different faculties and professional backgrounds to debate the dynamic, yet amorphous, cultural and political group – the Patriot Opposition – who formed in opposition to the men and measures of the first ‘Prime Minister’, Sir Robert Walpole.


- Speakers include: Robin Eagles, Christine Gerrard, Andrew Thompson, Clarissa Campbell Orr, Thomas McGeary, Nigel Aston and Carole Taylor.

- The conference will take place at Hampton Court Palace on Friday 7 June. Lunch will be provided.

- The registration fee is £10 (concessions/students) or £20 (standard).

- To attend the conference please email the conference organisers, Oliver Cox and Jennifer Scammell at proteanpatriots@gmail.com, or you can register online here by 25 May 2013. Space is limited so register now to avoid disappointment!