Talk: The Coaching Inn in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Having visited and surveyed hundreds of historic inns across the British Isles, Jamaica, the United States and Canada, over the last three years, for a major Leverhulme Trust-funded research project, the University of Plymouth’s Professor Dan Maudlin presents an illustrated insight to the inns he studied in America. He examines the British Atlantic world in this location through the building, occupation, and varied uses of these vital spaces for early modern travellers.

As an architectural historian, Prof Maudlin is interested in the relationship between design and the spaces and places of the everyday: his current research also contributes to the history of the early modern British Atlantic world.

Speaker biography Daniel Maudlin, FSA Scot, is Professor in the School of Humanities and Performing Arts. His talk draws on the wide-ranging research he undertook during a three-year Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship on Different Places, Same Spaces: The Inn and the Traveller in the British Atlantic World. Among his many publications are, with B. L. Herman (eds), Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places and Material Culture 1600 – 1850 (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), winner of the 2016 Allen G. Noble Book Award, International Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture.

Date: Tuesday 2 Oct
Time: 19:00 – 20:00
Ticket information: £6/£4.20/Friends free, UoP students free via SPiA

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