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Join artist, writer and curator, Andrew Nicholls for a discussion on the cultural phenomenon that was The Grand Tour . About this event
Current events have made us reconsider the ease of travel we once took for granted. Three hundred years ago, travel and the experiences that came with it were new and novel concept. The Grand Tour was a cultural phenomenon that spanned three centuries and invented the very notion of tourism, as well as the Neoclassical and Romantic movements, arguably the eighteenth century’s greatest contributions to Western culture. In its original form, the Tour allowed promising young aristocratic British men to complete their educations abroad. However at its heart was a dichotomy between the stoic nation-building aspirations of the British Empire, and the unruly desires of a generation of outrageously privileged young men who were let loose on the world for the first time with practically no