Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Girl of the Period By the second half of the nineteenth century it was...
The BBC - Protecting it from the Government For 80 years the BBC Governors were charged with regulating...
Unweaving the Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing System: Complexity, Simplicity and Paradox Despite the onslaught of legislative initiatives surrounding AML/CTF, it is...
Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, 'Four Quartets' These poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is...
Slavery - The US perspective: From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Dr Alan Sked, The London School of Economics and Political...
The Curse of the poke bonnet: Television's version of history The Colin Matthew lecture for the public understanding of history.
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
The Origin of the Constellations Who invented the constellations? The constellations that we use to...