Citizen Authors and Their Heroes: Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and Sir Thomas Gresham As part of the Literary Londoners series, this lecture focuses...
Shakespeare, 'The Tempest' and its City Connections This lecture focuses on Shakespeare, in particular his final solo...
Ben Jonson, 'The Alchemist' and Blackfriars As part of the Literary Londoners series, this lecture explores...
Would it be Right to Make Vaccination Mandatory? Vaccination against disease has saved countless lives, yet it remains...
This Imperious Company - The East India Company and the Modern Multinational The East India Company and its relation to modern multinational...
Britain in the 20th Century: The Conservative Reaction, 1951-1965 The Conservatives recovered remarkably rapidly from the debacle of 1945...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The Wars of German Unification, 1864-1871 In three short, sharp military conflicts, the Kingdom of Prussia...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...