How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...
Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, 'Four Quartets' These poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is...
The Novel & Idealism: George Sand's 'Francois le champi' (The Country Waif) The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the rapid ascendancy of...
London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World - Attlee The sound on this lecture is of a very low...
The Politics of Architecture in Tudor and Stuart London How the Tudor and Stuart monarchs used the buildings of...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
The Lost Hospitals of London: Bethlem Hospital - Worth a Visit? Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London’s charitable provision...