English Architecture and the First World War The First World War had a devastating effect on Britain...
London’s Lost Rivers: The Hackney Brook and other North West Passages Iain Sinclair takes a look at the rivers of London...
Victorian Era Astronomy: On Land and in the Skies In the late 19th-century, astronomical research could be practical, using...
Women of the Harlem Renaissance In the early twentieth century Black creatives were America’s artistic...
The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion We perceive the world through the processing of information given...
Two Losses Make a Win: How a Physicist Surprised Mathematicians One of the most extraordinary pieces of new mathematics was...
The Bloomsbury Group: A Queer History This lecture will explore the world of the second Bloomsbury...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...