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...
Were There Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe? This lecture considers a set of superhuman female figures found...
19th-Century Eclipse Expeditions During the late 19th century, British and American organisations such...
Shaping Mathematical Practices of the Science of the Stars Extant manuscripts, early library catalogues, lists of loans and wills...
The birth of heritage and the fabrication of history This lecture will examine how heritage protection began and went...
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...