The Bidwell House Museum is excited to present the first of three talks in our 4th annual Zoom lecture series. For the first talk on March 26 we will be joined by Simon Middleton who will present From Bubbles to Revolutions: changing conceptions of money in England, France, and America, 1690-1781. This first lecture will be followed by two more in April about the art of first person historical interpretation and the factors in 1775 that led to the American war for Independence

In this lecture, Middleton considers changing attitudes towards money; along with the social and political consequences of those attitudes after the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles up through the American Revolution.

Simon Middleton teaches at the College of William & Mary and writes on work and politics, law and debt, and latterly on the history of money in the 17th and 18th century middle colonies, New York and Pennsylvania. For the last year he has been writing lectures commissioned by the online content producer, The Great Courses. The lectures offer a history of money from 3000 BCE to the present and will be available on Amazon prime, audible and other platforms from November 2025.

The lecture will be held via Zoom.