Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, 'Four Quartets' These poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is...
The Politics of Architecture in Tudor and Stuart London How the Tudor and Stuart monarchs used the buildings of...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
Ideological weddings: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue New rights and new lefts in Britain as both the...
The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate Why was it argued that the poor could not vote...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...
The Rule of Law and its Enemies: The Landscape of Law The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture, recorded at Gresham...
Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...