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...
The Novel & Morality: Samuel Johnson's 'Rasselas' The Morality of Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas. Dr Johnson was one of...
Formal and Informal Empire in the Nineteenth Century From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s...
Feliks Topolski: Eye witness to the 20th Century Between 1975 and 1989, the Polish-born expressionist artist, Feliks Topolski...
The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989 - Mussolini The first lecture set the scene by analysing the devastating...
Great Britain and the other imperial powers: Conflict over China During the nineteenth century, Great Britain fought two wars, the...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...