Pacifists Making Guns: The Galton Family and Britain's Industrial Revolution
When: Mon., Sept. 17 2018
As part of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities lecture series, Stanford professor Priya Satia will talk about how a Quaker-owned biggest gun-making company in Britain in the 18th century supplied guns to the slave trade in West Africa as well as to the East India Company and other settlers and trading companies. The talk takes place at 5 p.m. at the Tikham Veale University Center's Ballroom A. Tickets are free. (Niesel)