Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Girl of the Period By the second half of the nineteenth century it was...
War Halls: Royal Houses from the Saxons to the Hundred Years' War Medieval kings were warriors and their palaces needed to reflect...
Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel It is argued that Copernicus’ theory of the sun-centred universe...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: Women in Red Fashionable dress in the nineteenth century had a moral dimension...
Eye on the Future: How can modern scientific knowledge help to prevent blindness Gene therapy, stem cells antibodies, RNA interference and nanotechnology have...
Modern Reading in Historical Context: From Gutenberg to Naked Women Did the publication of Goethe’s epistolary novel, ‘The Sorrows of...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Crinoline Cage The middle of the nineteenth century was the great age...
Return of the Microbes: How infections are once more taking over A number of infectious diseases cause blindness. After decades of...
Ancient Reading in an Historical Context This lecture will explore the varying ways in which people...