Ancient Reading in an Historical Context This lecture will explore the varying ways in which people...
Reading as a Reader and Reading as a Critic Does analysing a book 'spoil' its charm? Does understanding the...
"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his...
The BBC - Protecting it from the Government For 80 years the BBC Governors were charged with regulating...
How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: War and Revolution in 1848 The international settlement reached at the Congress of Vienna in...
The Curse of the poke bonnet: Television's version of history The Colin Matthew lecture for the public understanding of history.
How to Place Slavery into British Identity This lecture will revisit the determinants of British identity by...