Picturesque Engineering: Telford's Highland Roads and Bridges In partnership with the Fulbright Commission. In 1819, Thomas Telford...
Sir Christopher Wren and the Rebuilding of the City Churches after the Great Fire of London In this lecture, Anthony Geraghty will reveal how Sir Christopher...
Being a Guitarist in the Time of Byron and Shelley With a player’s insight (a guitar of 1825 is my...
The Londonderry Plantation from 1641 until the Disengagement at the end of the Nineteenth Century The events that led to the Londonderry Plantation had momentous...
Restoration and Reaction: Palaces of the Restoration Charles II's court has often been portrayed as devoted to...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...
The life and legacy of Dr Edward Jenner FRS, pioneer of vaccination Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner...