Debussy and Mallarme: Symbolism and Les Mardistes Les Mardistes was a group of intellectuals who met every...
Sir Christopher Wren: Architect & Courtier Sir Christopher Wren’s success was underpinned by his consummate skill...
Long Commerce: Transactions across time Taking off from a 2007 Gresham lecture "Stealing the Silver...
Literature and Politics in Seventeenth Century London The contrasting, but interconnected, experiences of two writers: Sir Walter...
Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative...
The Question of Beauty in Architecture Alain de Botton, writer, broadcaster and producer, ponders the question...