Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, 'Four Quartets' These poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is...
Slavery - The US perspective: From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Dr Alan Sked, The London School of Economics and Political...
The Curse of the poke bonnet: Television's version of history The Colin Matthew lecture for the public understanding of history.
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
North America's Largest Act of Slave Resistance? This lecture will reveal and analyse the history of the...
The American Presidency: George H W Bush The older Bush, like Carter, was a one-term president. Yet...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
The Origin of the Constellations Who invented the constellations? The constellations that we use to...