The birth of heritage and the fabrication of history This lecture will examine how heritage protection began and went...
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...
Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 This lecture explores new ways of understanding the crisis that...
"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his...
Portraits of Native Americans from Pocahontas to Sitting Bull From 1600 – 1850, artists in England and, later, in...
Lungs, Gut, and Skin: Biological Interfaces with the Outside World We interface with our environment via the air we breathe...
Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...