London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World - Attlee The sound on this lecture is of a very low...
The Politics of Architecture in Tudor and Stuart London How the Tudor and Stuart monarchs used the buildings of...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
The Lost Hospitals of London: Bethlem Hospital - Worth a Visit? Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London’s charitable provision...
Ideological weddings: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue New rights and new lefts in Britain as both the...
The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate Why was it argued that the poor could not vote...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...
Imperial Rivalry with the Russian Empire During the nineteenth century, Great Britain and Russia engaged in...