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The Warrior, the Voyager and the Artist: Dr Kate Fullagar (1776)

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Dr Kate Fullagar, author of The Warrior, the Voyager and the Artist

Worlds Colliding: the Warrior, the Voyager and the Artist

In this episode of Travels Through Time the Australian historian Dr Kate Fullagar travels back to 10 December 1776.

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She visits Old Somerset House on the Strand in London to watch the painter Joshua Reynolds delivering his annual lecture to the Royal Academy; she crosses the Atlantic to the home of the diplomat Ostenaco in Cherokee Country; and she steps aboard HMS Resolution in the mid-Indian Ocean, as the much-travelled Pacific Islander Mai heads home on Captain Cook’s third great voyage.

Set just months after the Declaration of Independence, Kate’s is a panoramic travel at a time of empire and great political and social change.

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Show Notes:

Scene One: London. Old Somerset House. Joshua Reynolds is giving his 7th presidential address to the Royal Academy.

Scene Two: Chota, Cherokee town in southern Appalachian mountains. The Cherokees are negotiating for peace with the settler revolutionaries invading their homeland.

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Scene Three: Indian Ocean, midway between Cape Town and Tasmania. Mai is going home to his island group in the South Pacific, with James Cook’s third expedition.

Memento: Joshua Reynolds’ paintings of Mai and Ostenaco

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