# Event Details

- **Event Name**: England's 'island nationhood?' with Professor Lorna Hutson
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 am – Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 am
- **Event Description**: How did early modern legal and poetic texts conjure an Anglo-British sea-empire when no ‘Great Britain’ existed?

Professor Lorna Hutson considers poets John Milton and Edmund Spenser, as well as English cartographers and lawyers, in the context of an international European concern with whether the seas should be ‘common’ to all nations.

The talk asks how we might rethink Milton’s poetics of English freedom in the context of Anglo-imperial claims over British coastal waters, revealing the history we suppress when we speak of England in this period as an ‘island nation’. 

Find out more and book here: https://www.library.gov.au/whats-on/events/englands-island-nationhood-professor-lorna-hutson
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/canberra/englands-island-nationhood-with-professor-lorna-hutson/200029470648803
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 12

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.library.gov.au/whats-on/events/englands-island-nationhood-professor-lorna-hutson?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=canberra-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Canberra
- **state**: CT
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2600
- **lat**: -35.29873
- **long**: 149.13168
- **full address**: Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2600

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- **organizer**: National Library of Australia (https://allevents.in/org/national-library-of-australia/9218395)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2600
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** National Library of Australia
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about England's 'island nationhood?' with Professor Lorna Hutson ?
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