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Alistair Alcock
William Craik lived almost the whole of the 18th century in and around the family estate in rural South West Scotland and yet at every turn, he and his family found themselves embroiled in the political and social upheavals that led, for better or worse, to Britain's world dominance for the whole of the following century. This lecture will look at the political fights from the Acts of Union to the French Revolution and the social changes that accompanied them at least to the extent as they impinged on this provincial corner of what was to become the largest empire the world has ever seen.