1665: London's Last Great Plague 350 years ago, London experienced a devastating outbreak of plague...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Crinoline Cage The middle of the nineteenth century was the great age...
The Phantom Cup that Comes and Goes: The Story of the Holy Grail The Holy Grail conjures up images of a romantic and...
Feliks Topolski: Eye witness to the 20th Century Between 1975 and 1989, the Polish-born expressionist artist, Feliks Topolski...
The Stigma of Mental Illness: Inevitable or unjustifiable? Stigma and discrimination against people with mental illness is common...
Reflections on Secret Intelligence Sir David Omand KCB, Former Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator, The...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...
Walking the Line: Preserving liberty in times of insecurity A consideration of how the law should approach the threat of terrorism, treading the thin line between vigilance and oppression.