“How The West Was Spun”

From Sacajawea to Jake Angelli

The Legacy of the Louisiana Purchase

In 1803, America bought Louisiana from Napoleon, doubling the size of the country overnight. What was in those 900,000 square miles? Who settled it? And how has the behaviour of those trailblazing misfits come to define the “cowboy attitude” of mainstream America through two centuries and the storming of the Capitol in January 2021? “It takes one to know one” as they say. Your lecturer was born in Iowa, in the heart of the Louisiana Purchase. Please leave your guns at the door.

7.30pm, Friday, 20th January 2023

The Warren Centre, Micheldever Station, SO21 3AR

All welcome: £10 at the door in aid of St Mary’s to include a glass of wine and cheese