Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Crinoline Cage The middle of the nineteenth century was the great age...
The Phantom Cup that Comes and Goes: The Story of the Holy Grail The Holy Grail conjures up images of a romantic and...
Britain in the 20th Century: The Conservative Reaction, 1951-1965 The Conservatives recovered remarkably rapidly from the debacle of 1945...
Feliks Topolski: Eye witness to the 20th Century Between 1975 and 1989, the Polish-born expressionist artist, Feliks Topolski...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...
People, Protection and Parameters: Comparing Flooding in the UK and the Netherlands Recent floods in the United Kingdom have led to debates...
The Legacy of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill died in January 1965, having entered Parliament 65...
Shall future generations eat fish or whales? In the mid-twentieth century the Southern Ocean whaling industry was...
Britain's Foreign Policy in a Fast-Changing World The 2022 Peter Nailor Memorial Lecture For 40 years Britain's...
SeaChange: Reversing the Tide The highly-acclaimed lecture/performance combines the knowledge of science and the...