Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt? In the late nineteenth century, Joseph Chamberlain transformed Birmingham with...
The Communist Party of Great Britain and Middle Class Recruits Professor Morgan, of the University of Manchester, examines the wider...
More Means Better: Fifty years of Higher Education Kingsley Amis famously argued that, in higher education, "More Means...
Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek The Hebrew lawgiver Moses was compared to ancient Greek lawgivers...
The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Middle Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s Why did some idealistic young people join the Communist Party...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...