How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...
The Novel & Idealism: George Sand's 'Francois le champi' (The Country Waif) The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the rapid ascendancy of...
Confronting the terrorist mind: explaining the repeated failure of intelligence Modern police forces and governments frequently claim victories in the...
London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
Vision and Values in a Volatile World: Lecture One We live in volatile times, as the Arab Spring and...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The Russo-Turkish War, 1875-1878 This is the least-known of the wars discussed in this...
The Politics of Architecture in Tudor and Stuart London How the Tudor and Stuart monarchs used the buildings of...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...