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The Victorians: Art and Culture

The Victorian age began as an age of realism, in...

Freedom Song: The Fisk Jubilee Singers' Story

A choir of ex-slaves, raising funds to build their University, toured America from 1871, suffering discrimination and hardship.

The Modern Goddess

This lecture looks at how and why a particular form...

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...

Talking with Beasts: Human and animal languages

Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Girl of the Period

By the second half of the nineteenth century it was...

From Conquest to Control

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European...

The Victorians: Time and Space

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, communication was slow...

The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author

Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...