Dickens's Public Readings: A Tale of Two Desks This illustrated lecture marks 150 years since Dickens’s death by reflecting on the nature of his creative genius and his legacy.
St. Paul's Cathedral at 300: The Recent Refurbishment Project A continuation of the story of St Paul's... 2011 is...
Restoration and Reaction: Palaces of the Restoration Charles II's court has often been portrayed as devoted to...
Revolutionary State? Royal Palaces in Cromwell's England The execution of Charles I brought about the sale of...
Playing Catch-up: Palaces from the Hundred Years' War to the Wars of the Roses What was the difference between the fortress of a great...
Faces in Court 1893-1918: Drawings of William Hartley from New Scotland Yard's Crime Museum William Hartley (1862-1937) was an early Fleet Street photographer whose...
The Institutionalisation of the Arts in Early Victorian England The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of...
Trading Identities: The image of the merchant What was a merchant in 16th Century Europe, and what...