Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Girl of the Period By the second half of the nineteenth century it was...
Ancient Reading in an Historical Context This lecture will explore the varying ways in which people...
Reading as a Reader and Reading as a Critic Does analysing a book 'spoil' its charm? Does understanding the...
"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his...
The BBC - Protecting it from the Government For 80 years the BBC Governors were charged with regulating...
Unweaving the Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing System: Complexity, Simplicity and Paradox Despite the onslaught of legislative initiatives surrounding AML/CTF, it is...
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...