<div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings everybody,<br><br>I'd like to let you know about a conversation that we hosted and filmed with Professor John H. Elliott (1930-2022), University of Oxford, a number of years ago.  An undergraduate encounter in the Prado Museum with a 17th-century painting of Count-Duke Olivares by Velázquez, led John Elliott on a lifelong odyssey to study the history of Spain, Europe and the Americas in the early modern period to become one of the greatest Spanish historians of our age.<br><br>The full conversation is inserted in an essay called The Antidote, here: <a href="https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-antidote" target="_blank">https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-antidote</a>, and you watch it for free there.<br><br>All the best,<br>Irena</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><table style="direction:ltr;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size:0;height:12px;line-height:0"></td></tr><tr><td><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><table style="max-width:470px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-bottom:8px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="470" style="width:470px"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="width:10px;padding-right:10px"><img src="https://d36urhup7zbd7q.cloudfront.net/4585930342793216/5274747936702464.gif?ck=1534948832.17" width="54" height="auto" alt="photo" style="border-radius:0;width:54px;height:autopx;max-width:120px"></td><td style="border-right:1px solid #1a75d0"></td><td style="text-align:initial;font:12px Arial;color:#646464;padding:0 10px"><div style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0!important"><b>Irena Burton</b><br><span>Co-Founder/COO</span>, <span>Ideas Roadshow</span></div><table style="width:470px;margin-top:5px" width="470" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="color:#8d8d8d;font-size:12px"><p style="margin:0"><span style="display:inline-block"><a href="mailto:irena@ideasroadshow.com" style="color:#8d8d8d;text-decoration:none;font-family:sans-serif" target="_blank">irena@ideasroadshow.com</a></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="color:#8d8d8d;font-size:12px"><p style="margin:0"><span style="white-space:nowrap;display:inline-block"><a href="https://ideasroadshow.com/" style="color:#8d8d8d;text-decoration:none;font-family:sans-serif" target="_blank">https://ideasroadshow.com/</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-top:10px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="padding-right:6px;text-align:center;padding-top:0"><p style="margin:1px"></p></td><td align="left" style="padding-right:6px;text-align:center;padding-top:0"><p style="margin:1px"></p></td><td align="left" style="padding-right:6px;text-align:center;padding-top:0"><p style="margin:1px"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:'ws-id M5WGOAa5';font-size:.01px;line-height:0"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div><img src="https://tracy.srv.wisestamp.com/px/wsid/M5WGOAa5.png" alt="__tpx__"></div></div></div>