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SUMMARY:The Political Day in Georgian England
DESCRIPTION:—a lecture given by Amanda Vickery\, Queen Mary\, University 
 of  London\n\nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eightee
 nth-Century Studies\, the European History Colloquium\, and the UCLA Depar
 tment of History\n\n\n\nWhat did an eighteenth-century politician do all d
 ay? The meaning and mechanisms of eighteenth-century high politics have lo
 ng been debated. Was government personal\, local and the possession of a n
 arrow elite\, or ideological\, proto-modern and answerable to public opini
 on? Was politics a masculine bastion\, or accessible to widows and heiress
 es by virtue of property and lubricated by a social politics engineered by
  women? Despite decades of dispute\, if one were to ask precisely how and
  where a member of the government spent his time and how parliament and co
 urt ran on an ordinary day\, even the most committed scholar of politics m
 ight be stumped. However\, to make these apparently mundane inquiries forc
 es analysis of the articulation of all the components of élite political 
 culture—parliament and court\, Lords and Commons\, noblemen and noblewom
 en\, formal politics and social politics. Attention to the rythmns of time
 \, the exigencies of space\, and flows of traffic recast the history of po
 litics in altogether new ways to escape the staleness of current historiog
 raphy.\n\nAmanda Vickery is an English historian\, writer\, radio and tele
 vision presenter\, and professor of early modern history. Her books includ
 e The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Eighteenth-Century England (1
 998)\, and most recently Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England 
 (2009). She is the winner of the Longman History Today prize\, the Whitfie
 ld Book Prize\, and the Wolfson History Prize. She has worked extensively 
 for the BBC as a presenter for both television and radio.
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