‘Is it in Pevsner?’: A Short History of the ‘Buildings of …' Series This lecture traces the history of this famous series by...
More Means Better: Fifty years of Higher Education Kingsley Amis famously argued that, in higher education, "More Means...
Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative...
Houston, We Have a Problem: How the Fossil Fuel Industry is Risking Our Future and Your Pension When oil and gas industry leaders flew into Houston for...
Middle Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s Why did some idealistic young people join the Communist Party...
The Guitar, the Steamship and the Picnic: England on the Move In the early nineteenth century, there developed an intimate and...
How Inequality Affects Mental Health Traditional risk factors for mental illness include genetics, perinatal factors...
The New Art of Central Banking Following the Long Expansion and the global financial crisis, money...
The Hidden Face of British Gardening Gardening has been big business since the 17th century, but how can we measure its growth and economic importance?