Stravinsky, Britten and the Lure of the Classical Past Professor Cross examines the themes of metamorphosis and other classical...
"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
Quakers Living Adventurously: The Library and Archives of the Society of Friends Since the seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of...
Green Immunity – How Do Plants Fight Infection? Most of us rarely think about plant immunity. But, like...
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...
Science-Based Targets, Greenwashing and Brownscraping: Net Zero in the Private Sector Many companies are now required to have a “Science-based Target”...
The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...