Early Science: The Setting up of The Royal Society A Symposium to mark the 350th anniversary of The Royal...
Revolutionary State? Royal Palaces in Cromwell's England The execution of Charles I brought about the sale of...
Ancient Reading in an Historical Context This lecture will explore the varying ways in which people...
Reading as a Reader and Reading as a Critic Does analysing a book 'spoil' its charm? Does understanding the...
Scientists Must Protect and Promote Human Rights: It is Principled and in their Interest National science academy members worldwide, concerned about dozens of unjustly...
"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his...
How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...
Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, 'Four Quartets' These poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is...
The Novel & Idealism: George Sand's 'Francois le champi' (The Country Waif) The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the rapid ascendancy of...