The Roman Denarius and the Euro: A precedent for monetary union? A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes...
Culture and Resistance: Indigenous Responses to a Globalised World This lecture looks at the place occupied by indigenous cultures...
Why is Africa still the poorest continent? Among 29 countries where human life expectancy is still 50...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President 1933-1945 - Foreign Policy Elected in the midst of the Great Depression, Roosevelt transformed...
The Berlioz Requiem - Pre-concert talk The Berlioz Requiem will be performed later the same evening...
After Iraq - Shall we ever intervene again? The former leader of the Liberal Democrats, the Rt Hon...
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: The true story of Gulf War Syndrome Simon Wessely is professor of psychiatry at the Institute of...
Great Britain and the other imperial powers: Conflict over China During the nineteenth century, Great Britain fought two wars, the...
The American Revolution 1763 - 1783: Separation and Divorce How, in the few years from 1763 to 1775, did...