1665: London's Last Great Plague 350 years ago, London experienced a devastating outbreak of plague...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Crinoline Cage The middle of the nineteenth century was the great age...
'There's nowt so queer as folk' - Gender and sexuality Sex and religion. Why celibacy? Is homosexuality objectively disordered? Are...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...
Shall future generations eat fish or whales? In the mid-twentieth century the Southern Ocean whaling industry was...
SeaChange: Reversing the Tide The highly-acclaimed lecture/performance combines the knowledge of science and the...