History

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

This lecture looks at the impact of empire on the colonizers and the colonized. In Europe, ideologies of imperialism emerged, increasingl...

Today, any mention of the medieval leper conjures up alarming images of exclusion, ostracism and fear, but such ideas are large...

Economic dominance brings cultural dominance and the architecture of Empire was, in part, a template for the world. But as the century tu...

In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of children dying on the dung heaps of London. These children, mostly foundlings...

The 1960s saw a new course in British politics – the commitment of both major parties to entry into the European Community, as the Europe...

Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London’s charitable provision for the poor in medieval and early modern times. Hand in han...

The extraordinary story of this neglected quarter of London that in the late 19th century boasted seven major hospitals, of which only on...

European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918, continued to expand after the First World War, reaching their greatest...

A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes been used as an historical precedent for the European Union, and specifically the way th...

This lecture looks at the impact of empire on the colonizers and the colonized. In Europe, ideologies of imperialism emerged,...

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

The prospect of an apprenticeship attracted thousands of youths to the guild masters of early modern London. Where did apprentices come...

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European empires slowly imposed their control on the territories that in many cases...

The Conservatives recovered remarkably rapidly from the debacle of 1945. Their narrow election victory in 1951 led to 13 years of...

Trade and craft associations have flourished all over Europe for many centuries, but the City of London companies, now collectively...

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...

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to formal imperial acquisitions. Between this point and the outbreak...

The Census of April 1881 revealed an England which was a firmly urban and industrial nation. Although the number of ‘urban’...