Rare and Endangered Languages: Language Documentation and Revitalisation Professor Peter Austin outlines a number of projects aimed at...
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...
"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...
Slavery - The US perspective: From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Dr Alan Sked, The London School of Economics and Political...
The Novel & Idealism: George Sand's 'Francois le champi' (The Country Waif) The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the rapid ascendancy of...
How to Place Slavery into British Identity This lecture will revisit the determinants of British identity by...