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 Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
North America's Largest Act of Slave Resistance? This lecture will reveal and analyse the history of the...
Decolonization: The End of Empire? European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918...
The Lost Hospitals of London: Bethlem Hospital - Worth a Visit? Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London’s charitable provision...
The American Presidency: George H W Bush The older Bush, like Carter, was a one-term president. Yet...