Town and Crown: Why London never became an imperial capital How London developed differently from the other great capitals of...
The Politics of Architecture in Tudor and Stuart London How the Tudor and Stuart monarchs used the buildings of...
Our Changing Perceptions of National Security How have our ideas of national security changed since 9/11...
British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair A lecture to mark the publication of Vernon Bogdanor's book...
High politics and Hellfire: William Hogarth Infamous rake (and Chancellor of the Exchequer), Sir Francis Dashwood...
The Question of Beauty in Architecture Alain de Botton, writer, broadcaster and producer, ponders the question...
God meets Mammon: The Financing of the New Cathedral St. Paul's is perhaps the greatest building to have emerged...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...