Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt? In the late nineteenth century, Joseph Chamberlain transformed Birmingham with...
To Blame or Not to Blame? The Medical Profession and Blame Culture Traditionally, medicine has been taught by imitation, apprenticeship and humiliation...
Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa This lecture looks at debates and dialogues that characterise realist...
Quakers Living Adventurously: The Library and Archives of the Society of Friends Since the seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of...
"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
The Communist Party of Great Britain and Middle Class Recruits Professor Morgan, of the University of Manchester, examines the wider...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...