EA Festival x Gainsborough's House (Book Launch): Building Britannia

Eminent historian, Dr. Steven Parissien, will talk about his new book, Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings, with EA Festival director, Joanne Ooi.

Building Britannia is a chronicle of social, political and economic change seen through the prism of the country's built environment, but also a sequence of closely observed studies of a series of intrinsically remarkable structures: some of them beautiful or otherwise imposing; some of them more coldly functional; all of them with richly fascinating stories to tell.

Dr. Parissien tells both a national story, tracing how a growing sense of British nationhood was expressed through the country's architecture, and also examines how these structures were used by later generations to signpost, mythologise or remake British history.