Seriously so i think thats an issue. Met Office Weather warnings for most of the uk today, with thunderstorms likely to bring more flash flooding and travel disruption. The premier League Season gets under way tonight as european champions liverpool take on promoted norwich city at anfield. Good morning, welcome to bbc newsroom live. Our top story the chancellor sajid javid has said its a challenging time for world economies as new figures revealed the uk economy shrank in the Second Quarter of this year. The gdp figures show a 0. 2 decline between april and june, the worst performance of the uk economy since 2012. It follows a 0. 5 growth the previous quarter, which was largely put down to manufacturers stockpiling before the missed brexit deadline on march 31st. Even the usually Strong Services sector, showed just 0. 1 growth in todays figures, which have led to fears of a uk recession. Lets get more from our correspondent katy austin, katy what do the figures tell us . It had been e
Radical influence of a moderate founding father, recently published by the university of harvard press. Brooke barbier is a public historian who holds a ph. D. American history from boston college. In addition to king hancock, she is the author of boston and the American Revolution a town versus an empire, published by the unit excuse me, the History Press in 2017, which focuses on prerevolutionary boston and its during the American Revolution. In addition to her scholarship, she is also the founder of yield tavern tours, a popular guided outing along bostons renowned freedom, and that was founded in 2013. But before i hand over to dr. Barber, however, the usual housekeeping items are in order for our friends tuning in with us on zoom this evening following tonights authors talk there will be a question and answer session. So please feel free to submit your questions at any point. The presentation by using the q a that can be found at the bottom of your screen. And we will do our best
That is made possible in part from a generous gift from massachusetts of the cincinnati features. Dr. Brooke barbier discussing her new book, king hancock the radical influence of a moderate founding father, recently published by the university of harvard press. Brooke barbier is a public historian who holds a ph. D. American history from boston college. In addition to king hancock, she is the author of boston and the American Revolution a town versus an empire, published by the unit excuse me, the History Press in 2017, which focuses on prerevolutionary boston and its during the American Revolution. In addition to her scholarship, she is also the founder of yield tavern tours, a popular guided outing along bostons renowned freedom, and that was founded in 2013. But before i hand over to dr. Barber, however, the usual housekeeping items are in order for our friends tuning in with us on zoom this evening following tonights authors talk there will be a question and answer session. So ple
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Democracy. Thanks to cspan for being here. We are doing things a little differently today because of cspan being here which means i will say a little more about what the Kinder Institute is so for the tv audience. Founded in 2014 the Kinder Institute is a joint project with the university of missouri Political Science and history departments in cooperation with other scholars across campus. It is dedicated to research, teaching and Community Engagement on the subject of american political thought and history seen in broad context and from a wide variety of perspectives. Created by a gift from rich and nancy kinder. We are grateful they made the bold choice of humanities and social sciences at the university of missouri as one of their philanthropies. Our hope is to teach and learn about american constitutional democracy as the founders created it but not just that. We want to understand the ideas that inspire the founders as well as those they disagreed with and over. We want to unders