London’s Lost Rivers: The Hackney Brook and other North West Passages Iain Sinclair takes a look at the rivers of London...
How many healthy people can the earth support? From Malthus to the Club of Rome, predictions about maximum...
Mercury rising: health warnings for a hot planet Daily news bulletins threaten devastation from climate change, with dire...
Shall future generations eat fish or whales? In the mid-twentieth century the Southern Ocean whaling industry was...
SeaChange: Reversing the Tide The highly-acclaimed lecture/performance combines the knowledge of science and the...
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...
Giant Waves on the Open Sea: Mariners’ tall tales or alarming fact? Cinemagoers will be familiar with the thrill of giant waves...
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...
The Fabrication of Medieval History: Archaeology and artifice at the Office of Works The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of...