Shakespeare, 'The Tempest' and its City Connections This lecture focuses on Shakespeare, in particular his final solo...
Why Society Needs Astronomy and Cosmology 'One day, Sir, you may tax it': Faraday's prescient quip...
Would it be Right to Make Vaccination Mandatory? Vaccination against disease has saved countless lives, yet it remains...
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...