How can we keep our institutions alive and healthy in times of cultural change? In conversation with a range of leaders, academics, writers and artists I’m going to consider how we might renew our cultural life through ideas and imagination.
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How can we keep our institutions alive and healthy in times of cultural change? In conversation with a range of leaders, academics, writers and artists I’m going to consider how we might renew our cultural life through ideas and imagination.
#14 The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: On Written Constitutions with Professor Linda Colley
In Conversation with Jack Jacobs
49 minutes 14 seconds
2 years ago
#14 The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: On Written Constitutions with Professor Linda Colley
Linda Colley is one of the world's most eminent scholars of global and imperial history. Professor of History at Princeton, she is a highly respected contributor to public debates around constitutionalism in the United Kingdom, and the recent author of The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World. In this conversation, we reflect on written constitutions as they globally evolved through crisis and revolution in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. In the process, we examine the strange ways in which written constitutions have come to both entrench and redress existing inequalities for women and Indigenous peoples, as well as the threats to written constitutions around the world today, and what might be done to preserve these fallible, yet still essential, paper creations of human beings.
In Conversation with Jack Jacobs
How can we keep our institutions alive and healthy in times of cultural change? In conversation with a range of leaders, academics, writers and artists I’m going to consider how we might renew our cultural life through ideas and imagination.
