Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 This lecture explores new ways of understanding the crisis that...
"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his...
Dementia: A Cultural History Dementia is often designated the “plague” of the twenty-first century...
Who Benefited from the British Empire? Who benefited from the British Empire? In the metropole, did...
Queen Victoria: Images of Power and Empire This lecture will examine the images of power and empire...
Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...