“Knowing you, knowing me”: can other animals have an identity crisis? Success in achieving a true sense of identity of self...
Animal senses: how do they perceive the world and what important things can they sense that we cannot? The way the world is perceived by any species is...
Shakespeare, 'The Tempest' and its City Connections This lecture focuses on Shakespeare, in particular his final solo...
Film Music: Hitchcock's Psycho Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece is inextricably tied up with its...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...
1665: London's Last Great Plague 350 years ago, London experienced a devastating outbreak of plague...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...