The Beauty of Holiness and its Perils (or what is to happen to 10,000 parish churches?) This is the Sir Thomas Gresham Annual Lecture of 2007...
The Death Penalty: A Colonial Relic? This lecture explores the death penalty's roots, its abolition in...
Island Universes: Discovering Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way The discovery that we live in an ordinary galaxy, one...
The Fabrication of Medieval History: Archaeology and artifice at the Office of Works The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of...
"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his...