Sir Christopher Wren: Architect & Courtier Sir Christopher Wren’s success was underpinned by his consummate skill...
Long Commerce: Transactions across time Taking off from a 2007 Gresham lecture "Stealing the Silver...
Literature and Politics in Seventeenth Century London The contrasting, but interconnected, experiences of two writers: Sir Walter...
The Question of Beauty in Architecture Alain de Botton, writer, broadcaster and producer, ponders the question...
The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989 - The little dictators The third lecture in the series asked why so many...
The Human Rights Act: Cornerstone of a New Constitution The Human Rights Act of 1998 gives us, in effect...
Enemies at home: from class war to the war on crime Hostility and demonisation in party political rhetoric in Britain. The...