Katrina Marchant - Spinning Virginia Sun 28th July 1.30pm
This talk explores how text and, especially, images were produced to promote the “New World” as a space for English exploration, trade, and settlement. It reveals how the “New World” project relied on propaganda and spin to highlight both the moral and fiscal advantages that it could offer to all those who invested their time and money in the process.
Katrina earned her PhD in early modern literature and culture (University of Sussex, 2015). She created the YouTube channel “Reading the Past” (11M total views) & is an educator (for school groups) and live costumed historic interpreter at various heritage sites. An expert contributor for various programmes & documentaries including 5Select’s “Lady Rochford (Anne Boleyn’s sister-in-law), “The People's Piazza: A History of Covent Garden”, on BBC 2 in 2022 and “Queens That Changed the World” on Channel 4 in 2023.
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This talk explores how text and, especially, images were produced to promote the “New World” as a space for English exploration, trade, and settlement. It reveals how the “New World” project relied on propaganda and spin to highlight both the moral and fiscal advantages that it could offer to all those who invested their time and money in the process.
Katrina earned her PhD in early modern literature and culture (University of Sussex, 2015). She created the YouTube channel “Reading the Past” (11M total views) & is an educator (for school groups) and live costumed historic interpreter at various heritage sites. An expert contributor for various programmes & documentaries including 5Select’s “Lady Rochford (Anne Boleyn’s sister-in-law), “The People's Piazza: A History of Covent Garden”, on BBC 2 in 2022 and “Queens That Changed the World” on Channel 4 in 2023.
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