Picturesque Engineering: Telford's Highland Roads and Bridges In partnership with the Fulbright Commission. In 1819, Thomas Telford...
Being a Guitarist in the Time of Byron and Shelley With a player’s insight (a guitar of 1825 is my...
Haydn in London: The Revolutionary Drawing Room This concert looks at 18th century music making and the...
The Bloomsbury Group: A Queer History This lecture will explore the world of the second Bloomsbury...
Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...
Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt? In the late nineteenth century, Joseph Chamberlain transformed Birmingham with...