Painting, Patronage and Politics under the Tudors Tudor England was a dangerous place for the wealthy and powerful. Art and architecture was a sign of connoisseurship but also political ambition.
Elizabeth's Ghost: The Afterlife of the Queen in the Stuart Era During the reigns of the Stuart monarchs, the image of...
Conflict and Consensus in the Age of the New Genetics: Mad, Bad or Sad Mad, bad, sad. Categories like this are never fixed; they...
Death Control: The Last Taboo? - 'Religious Perspectives on Euthanasia' and 'Can Philosophy Calm Anxieties?' Euthanasia, whilst becoming a more frequent topic for comment in...
Sacred Listening: The Voices and Music of the Gods What happens when we listen to music that incarnates a divine presence?
The Grande Messe des Morts and the Absence of God David Cairns delivers this lecture ahead of the City of...
The Spanish Culture of Charles I's Court Heir to the throne Charles I made a secret trip to win the hand of a princess. For eight months he was the guest of the Spanish king in Madrid.
Other Britains: One size doesn’t fit all Not all political thinking is about either individual liberty and...