Art and literature

England’s take off as the first industrial nation created a whole new language of building underpinned by technology and by an emer...

From the 1960s to our own time artists who have wished to express Christian themes have explored a number of very different artistic...

Contrary to much opinion, the current scene of faith-related art is very much alive. There are new commissions for churches and cathedral...

This Seminar provides an opportunity to examine in greater details some of the issues raised in Lord Harries' series of Gresham lectu...

Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most beautiful artefacts to survive from the Middle Ages.  Their production involved transfo...

Medieval drawings are frequently viewed as the poor cousins of fully-painted miniatures.  But in England, an appreciation of drawing...

Psalters containing the 150 Psalms were immensely popular medieval manuscripts, used by a wide array of patrons for liturgical, scholasti...

From his childhood acquaintance with London, when he feared he might become ‘a little robber or a little vagabond’, Charles D...

The urban detective has traditionally been a figure supremely able to penetrate the mysteries of the city, yet set apart from the populac...

London is a city of secrets, a shifting, seething mass of intrigue, venality and violence, in constant cultural flux. The perfect setting...

From the 1960s to our own time artists who have wished to express Christian themes have explored a number of very different...

England’s take off as the first industrial nation created a whole new language of building underpinned by technology and by an...

After World War II, without forgetting the terrible suffering earlier in the century, there was a new confidence expressed in the...

In the period under consideration a fair number of the artists considered have been Roman Catholics, but at one time there was a...

Evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revolutionary consequences for traditional Christian beliefs. This will be...

A continuation of the story of St Paul's...

2011 is the 300th anniversary of the completion of Christopher Wren's...

2011 is the 300th anniversary of the completion of...

As at the end of the 18^th century William Blake developed a highly individual style that did not fit easily into the...

The period before World War 1 saw an extraordinary burst of creativity in all the arts which has decisively effected all subsequent...

The contrasting, but interconnected, experiences of two writers: Sir Walter Ralegh and John Milton.

Ralegh was a prisoner in...