Online Talk: War, Faith, and the Political Genius of Benjamin Franklin

Join us online for a talk by historian Brady Crytzer, where he will detail how in 1756, Benjamin Franklin’s skills in diplomacy helped to yield a compromise Pennsylvania’s Quaker pacifists and the imperial regime that demanded a provincial militia to support North American efforts. In many ways, it’s his first great political achievement.

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An Evening with Historian George Boudreau

 

 

Join us as we host our friend George Boudreau, who will deliver a talk entitled “A Glimpse of Franklin on the Cusp: Unraveling an Often Forgotten Image of Franklin at Craven Street”. Focusing on Franklin in portraiture, the talk will fittingly take place in Franklin’s Craven Street parlour!

Talk only : £5

Tour + Talk: £15*

*The House tour will begin at 4:30pm

 

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Colour and Paint in the Smaller 18th-century Town House with Patrick Baty

6pm

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Join us either in person or online as Patrick Baty talks us through his long career of conserving some of England’s most remarkable historic homes, including his process of restoring the original ‘Franklin green’ color to the wooden-panelled walls of Benjamin Franklin House!

Ben’s Bon Voyage

March 20, 2025 – 6pm

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To mark the 250th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s hasty departure from London, we’re hosting a hybrid roundtable discussion featuring leading historians of Early America.

Founding Director Márcia Balisciano will deliver a special keynote speech highlighting the remarkable conservation efforts of the original board that saved Benjamin Franklin House. Then, moderator Ben Marsh will lead Liz Covart, Patrick Griffin, and Tara Bynum in a discussion reflecting on Franklin’s legacy 250 years on.

If you can’t join us in Ben’s parlour at 36 Craven Street, London, then we hope you’ll tune in online!

Robert H. Smith Lecture in Democracy

 

 

 

Márcia Balisciano is founding Director of Benjamin Franklin House. She is also founding Chief Sustainability Officer at RELX. She holds a PhD in Economic History from LSE and serves on the board of the Foundation for the (UN) Global Compact and the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens.

Michael Cox is a Founding Director of LSE IDEAS. He was Director of LSE IDEAS between 2008 and 2019. He is author or editor of several books, including Agonies of Empire: US Power from Clinton to Biden, a collection of essays titled The Post-Cold War World (2018), a centennial edition of J.M. Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace (2019), and a new edition of E. H. Carr’s 1945 classic Nationalism & After (2021).

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