Town and Crown: Why London never became an imperial capital How London developed differently from the other great capitals of...
Medieval Music: To Chant in a Vale of Tears According to one early-medieval author, ‘there are many who are...
Architects and Engineers: Making Infrastructure Beautiful Design excellence should be at the heart of all development...
The Medieval Agricultural Revolution: New evidence During the medieval ‘agricultural revolution’, new forms of cereal farming...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding Drawing on examples from the Israel-Palestine conflict, this lecture explores...
Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940–1945 The Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture This lecture highlights the...
The Question of Beauty in Architecture Alain de Botton, writer, broadcaster and producer, ponders the question...