Citizen Authors and Their Heroes: Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and Sir Thomas Gresham As part of the Literary Londoners series, this lecture focuses...
Shakespeare, 'The Tempest' and its City Connections This lecture focuses on Shakespeare, in particular his final solo...
Ben Jonson, 'The Alchemist' and Blackfriars As part of the Literary Londoners series, this lecture explores...
Why Society Needs Astronomy and Cosmology 'One day, Sir, you may tax it': Faraday's prescient quip...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Crinoline Cage The middle of the nineteenth century was the great age...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...
'There's nowt so queer as folk' - Gender and sexuality Sex and religion. Why celibacy? Is homosexuality objectively disordered? Are...