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...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
This Lecture Will Surprise You: When Logic is Illogical Mathematics offers certainty. That there are infinitely many prime numbers...
The Novel & Morality: Samuel Johnson's 'Rasselas' The Morality of Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas. Dr Johnson was one of...
Feliks Topolski: Eye witness to the 20th Century Between 1975 and 1989, the Polish-born expressionist artist, Feliks Topolski...
Imperial Rivalry with the Russian Empire During the nineteenth century, Great Britain and Russia engaged in...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
The Origin of the Constellations Who invented the constellations? The constellations that we use to...
At war with the French: Louis XIV and Napoleon Both Louis XIV in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries...