Town and Crown: Why London never became an imperial capital How London developed differently from the other great capitals of...
Queen Victoria: Images of Power and Empire This lecture will examine the images of power and empire...
Microbial Record-Breakers Microbes hold astonishing speed records: the remarkable Thiovulum majus races...
Medieval Music: To Chant in a Vale of Tears According to one early-medieval author, ‘there are many who are...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
The Question of Beauty in Architecture Alain de Botton, writer, broadcaster and producer, ponders the question...