Blue plaque for Jacob Bronowski, Ascent of Man presenter and University of Hull lecturer
A former University of Hull lecturer, once watched by M15 and deemed a security risk, will be posthumously honoured with a blue plaque to mark his ties with the city.
Poland-born Dr Jacob Bronowski, who died in 1974, was best remembered for presenting the 1973 BBC series The Ascent of Man.
But he was also a university lecturer who was monitored by the British secret service M15 – a fact only recently discovered by his family.
The plaque will be unveiled today at 2.30pm in Hallgate, Cottingham, where he lived between 1934 and 1942 when he was a university lecturer.
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Tonight, his daughter Professor Lisa Jardine, will give a lecture about her late father entitled 'A skilful and agitator of the Communist intellectual type: Exploring Jacob Bronowski's wartime MI5 file'.
The lecture will be held at Middleton Hall at the Hull Campus from 6pm. Admission is free.
Comments
by oldgoldone
Tuesday, October 30 2012, 2:53PM
“Jacob Bronowski was great academic and a fine person.”
by Ron_03
Monday, October 29 2012, 4:04PM
“He was once watched by M15??? Is that higher up than MI5 or just the HDM's usual miss spell??”