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Jonathan Conlin enseigne l’histoire britannique moderne à l’université de Southampton. Il est l’auteur de la biographie Mr. Five Per Cent. The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, The world’s richest man, publiée en janvier 2019, et de Tales of Two Cities, Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City, une histoire comparée de Paris et Londres, publiée en 2013. I am a historian of British cultural history from c. 1750 to the present, interested in engaging the general public as well as fellow specialists. My first book, a history of the National Gallery (London), led me to consider the development of other cultural institutions on the margins of history/art history: from Georgian pleasure gardens to television documentary series such as Civilisation (1969). I am also interested in exploring how Victorians such as William Ewart Gladstone, E. A. Freeman and Charles Kingsley employed concepts of evolutionary "development" in a range of "non-scientific" contexts, including theology, architecture, and history writing. Much of my work has employed a cross-Channel, Anglo-French perspective, a transnational approach which is equally evident in my recent project on the oil magnate and art collector Calouste Gulbenkian. Born in New York, I studied History and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, spending a year at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, Germany. After a Masters in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute I moved to Cambridge for my doctorate. Before coming to Southampton in 2006 I was a Junior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and briefly worked for the BBC, as Specialist Researcher on the Michael Buerk history documentary series Trade Roots. Alongside my Southampton teaching I have taught at the École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers (ESSCA) and held Visiting Fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks, the Huntington Library, the Lewis Walpole Library and Princeton University Library. I write regularly for History Today magazine and have organized a number of public screenings, concerts and study days, in collaboration with the National Gallery, Tate, British Film Institute and National Gallery of Art, Washington. |
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