Trading Identities: The image of the merchant What was a merchant in 16th Century Europe, and what...
Literature and Politics in Seventeenth Century London The contrasting, but interconnected, experiences of two writers: Sir Walter...
High politics and Hellfire: William Hogarth Infamous rake (and Chancellor of the Exchequer), Sir Francis Dashwood...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...
Forwards and Backwards: Architecture in inter-war England The First World War brought far reaching changes to England...