Why is Africa still the poorest continent? Among 29 countries where human life expectancy is still 50...
Atlantic Navigators: The Brendan Voyage A first-hand account of a harrowing voyage from the south-west...
Shakespeare, 'The Tempest' and its City Connections This lecture focuses on Shakespeare, in particular his final solo...
Ritual Protection Marks and Witchcraft at Knole, Kent An historic building survey at Knole, Kent enabled a very...
Film Music: Hitchcock's Psycho Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece is inextricably tied up with its...
1665: London's Last Great Plague 350 years ago, London experienced a devastating outbreak of plague...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...