Peter Frankopan

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

Tuesday 1 October
Castle Hill Baptist Church
7.30pm

Join author and world-renowned historian, Peter Frankopan, as he reconnects us with our ancestors, who, like us, worshipped, conserved – and exploited – the natural environment. 

Peter explores how our engagement with the natural world and with climatic change – and its effects on us – is not new: the development of religion and language and their relationship with the environment; growing demands for harvests resulting in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; the desire to centralise agricultural surplus forming the origins of the bureaucratic state; and how our efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history.

The Earth Transformed takes us from the beginning of recorded time to the present day, forces us to reckon with our continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world and draws salutary conclusions about what the future may bring.

Tickets £15.00

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