Last visit to Campo Manin

Last few days in venice. Passed through Campo Manin where we have spent much kafkaesque anxious time sorting out tributi fines for what we hadn’t paid for what we hadn’t done. Ignorance of what the communale wished one to pay was no excuse said a very smiling lady as we came back from the various […]

Bath RLSI lectures on the Enlightenment

10 Janet Todd Wed 09-Sep 2015 Poster D Click to access September%20Calendar%20%5B2%5D%202105.pdf I have just returned from Bath where I gave a talk on Mary Wollstonecraft’ conflicted relationship with the idea of Reason.  I had a gratifying large and enthusiastic audience. This was very pleasant for it was my first external talk since retiring from […]

Memorial for Dame Anne Warburton

I have just returned from the College’s celebration of the life of my predecessor Dame Anne Warburton. As my last formal duty as President I had organised the event so that speakers would talk on different facets of Dame Anne’s extraordinary life:  her time as the first woman British ambassador, her period as president of […]