Balloons: world service from above, from 1783 to now

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Channel: King's College London · 2018 · Education

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In this inaugural lecture, Professor Brant launched her new book Balloon Madness: Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786 (Boydell & Brewer 2017), with an airy and playful consideration of how, from aeronauts to chaironauts, balloons give us world service.

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