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SUMMARY:C.R.Fay: The Differences between Making History and Writing It - H
 ugh Gault\, biographer and independent researcher
DTSTART:20141202T174500Z
DTEND:20141202T191500Z
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CONTACT:Prof Jane Chapman
DESCRIPTION:The economic historian Charles Ryle Fay (1884-1961) was a stau
 nch advocate of workers’ and women’s rights\, who also became one of t
 he leading British machine gunners during World War One. As an economist h
 is associates included Alfred Marshall\, JM Keynes and Sir Austin Robinson
 \; as a historian he taught at Cambridge University for almost thirty year
 s and in Canada in the 1920s\, writing twenty books\, including idiosyncra
 tic works defying biographical norms - on his heroes William Huskisson and
  Adam Smith. What does his life tell us about the differences between maki
 ng history and writing about?\n it?
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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