The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...
Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative...
Lord Kelvin and the French 'F' Word: The Greatest Victorian Scientist? Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) was Professor of Natural Philosophy at the...
Medieval Carols Jeremy Summerly traces the early history of the world’s favourite musical genre with sung illustrations from the St Luke's Carollers of Chelsea.
International Criminal Tribunals: Experiments? Works in progress? Institutions that are here for good, or maybe not? In the last twenty years several international courts have been...