Literature

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 impressions of his first youthful visit, to his mature years when all doors opened for him, London was an important backdro...

Knighted for his services to literature and Poet Laureate from 1999 – 2009, Sir Andrew Motion will explore five decades of the City...

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

Ralegh was a prisoner in...

Often described as the ultimate Renaissance Man, Mervyn Peake was just eight when his father, a medical doctor, arranged for a Mandarin...

A symposium to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible.

This beautifully illustrated lecture explores the connections and...

A programme of specially commissioned new poetry about bees,...

Why was Burns so important to Robert Schumann? Why did they...

In 1509 John Colet and Thomas More joined the Mercers' Company. This
Symposium looks at these two key Tudor figures from an...

R S Thomas had a reputation for writing verse expressing a very bleak view of life, and being a dour and unsociable man. In fact some of...

Johnson's early life was beset by ill health; his eyesight and hearing were poor throughout his life. Poverty obliged him to leave...

The Orkneys produced two remarkable 20th century poets, for both of whom the Christian faith became central in the course of their adult...