The Rule of Law and its Enemies: The Landscape of Law The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture, recorded at Gresham...
The Lost Cities and Amazing Heritage of Kenya The coast of Kenya has a series of impressive medieval...
Charismatic Leadership: Nature, Causes, and Consequences How did politicians as diverse as Thatcher, Charles de Gaulle...
The Jacobean Space Programme - Wings, springs and gunpowder: flying to the moon from 17th century England An expert in the history of science, Allan Chapman is...
Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend While Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens are now...
Envy of Kings: The Guildhall of London and the Power of the Medieval Corporation The government of the City of London is older than...
Replanning London after the Second World War London was, during the Second World War, the largest and...
The Spanish Culture of Charles I's Court Heir to the throne Charles I made a secret trip to win the hand of a princess. For eight months he was the guest of the Spanish king in Madrid.
Prison and Why We Send People There: Does it Work? Should it? ‘They deserve to be put away’; ‘Appeal the sentence –...
How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...