Beyond 'Surprise or Satisfy' a New Theory of Performance That the key to an audience's attention is to fulfil...
More Means Better: Fifty years of Higher Education Kingsley Amis famously argued that, in higher education, "More Means...
The Guitar, the Steamship and the Picnic: England on the Move In the early nineteenth century, there developed an intimate and...
Leadership at a Time of Transition and Turbulence - A conversation with Peter Sutherland KCMG Professor Costa conducts a conversation/discussion with Peter Sutherland, Chairman of...
Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
The Great Depression and ‘Embedded Liberalism’ The Great Depression posed a serious threat to capitalism as economic nationalism flourished and Communism and Fascism offered alternative models.
Middle Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s Why did some idealistic young people join the Communist Party...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...