Revolutionary State? Royal Palaces in Cromwell's England The execution of Charles I brought about the sale of...
How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...
Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, 'Four Quartets' These poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is...
The Curse of the poke bonnet: Television's version of history The Colin Matthew lecture for the public understanding of history.
The Politics of Architecture in Tudor and Stuart London How the Tudor and Stuart monarchs used the buildings of...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...