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THE NEIGHBORHOOD Expat Group Events Meeting of the American Civil War Round Table UK British Political & Public Involvement with the Union & Confederate Propaganda Movements in London Saturday 31 January 2009. Time 12.30 for 13.00, ends 16.30 Civil Service Club, Great Scotland Yard, London SW1 Speaker Thomas E Sebrell II. Thomas will be discussing members of British society who subscribed to each side's propaganda newspapers, both published in Fleet Street during the war.  This will be the first public discussion about exactly who in Britain, specifically, supported the North & South — what sort of backgrounds did they come from, what occupations did they work in and why did they contribute to the Northern or Southern cause? Thomas E. Sebrell II was born in Lynchburg, Virginia.  He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 2001 (4th generation in his family), completed his M.A. at Virginia Tech in 2004, where he worked as teaching & research assistant to Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr., who was also his supervisor.  He also worked closely with William C. Davis while at Virginia Tech.  He was a researcher at the Museum of the Confederacy, where he worked under Dr. John Coski.  Thomas is currently working on a Ph.D. at Queen Mary, University of London, writing a thesis on Union & Confederate Propaganda in Britain during the American Civil War.  He has researched the American Civil War in archives all over England:  London, Cambridge, Oxford, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Chichester, Southampton, Hertford, Maidstone, Taunton, and other constituencies.  He has also taught undergraduate courses at Queen Mary — 'Race in the US: From Slavery to Civil Rights', 'Building the American Nation', & 'Historical Writing', and has recently had an article about the 5th Michigan Infantry regiment accepted for publication with the Michigan Historical Review.   For further information please contact Peter Lockwood; Tel 01747 828719   email acwrtuk@aol.com www.americancivilwar.org.uk

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