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Was Your View Of Scotland Different Depending On Where You Were From?

A question from the lecture 'Did Sir Walter Scott Invent...

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.

The Founder of the Feast? Dickens and Christmas

A survey of both the contemporary and later responses to Dickens’s Christmas writings, considering the extent to which he can be seen as the creator of the modern Christmas.

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?

Charles Dickens, 'Hard Times' and Hyperbole

Dickens' use of exaggeration is key to his style. But its use has myriad effects from making a character's disposition unmissable, to adding whimsy and humour.

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?

Van Eyck's The Virgin with the Canon: Visual Disability and Societal Attitudes as Depicted in the Northern Renaissance

Examples of disease as shown in artworks will be examined, from the medical and surgical point of view as well as the historical and artistic ones, particularly visual loss as portrayed by artists from pre-historic times.

The Role of Literary Creative Writing in Exploring Religious Issues

A question from the lecture 'The Beauty and the Horror...

Is Religion an Extension of Psychology?

A question from the lecture 'The Beauty and the Horror...

Jane Austen, 'Persuasion': Irony and the Mysterious Vagaries of Narrative

Narrative, the way a tale is told, is less straightforward than we might suppose. Austen handled irony brilliantly and systematically exploited new ways of narrating, including free indirect discourse. This lecture explores why Austen's way of narrating are so compelling.

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Was Your View Of Scotland Different Depending On Where You Were From?

Tough Choices: Heritage or Housing?

The Founder of the Feast? Dickens and Christmas

Shakespeare's Astronomy

Charles Dickens, 'Hard Times' and Hyperbole

Saving the Twentieth Century

Van Eyck's The Virgin with the Canon: Visual Disability and Societal Attitudes as Depicted in the Northern Renaissance

The Role of Literary Creative Writing in Exploring Religious Issues

Is Religion an Extension of Psychology?

Jane Austen, 'Persuasion': Irony and the Mysterious Vagaries of Narrative

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