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    Medieval Carols

    Jeremy Summerly traces the early history of the world’s favourite musical genre with sung illustrations from the St Luke's Carollers of Chelsea.

    Tough Choices: Heritage or Housing?

    The one built environment issue on which there is political consensus is an urgent need to build more houses. Housebuilding and heritage can be reconciled, but at the moment far too few local authorities know how to do it.

    Shakespeare's Astronomy

    Amongst all his astronomical allusions, Shakespeare demonstrates a deep knowledge of the night sky and its movements, including the new Copernican world-view. What can we learn of Elizabethan astronomy and Shakespeare's knowledge of it from the plays?

    Saving the Twentieth Century

    How far can experimental buildings of the 1960s and '70s be altered for new uses? Should there be new rules for a new era of conservation?

    The Five Catastrophes That Made London

    London is the most dynamic old world city on the planet – renewal has been at the heart of its success. Disaster has never been courted, but when it has come it has provided the platform for advances that have been at first sight architectural but with hindsight economic and social.

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