Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...
Human Livelihoods Depend on Wild Flowers: Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank explained In this talk Dr Robin Probert explains why human livelihoods...
To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
On Top of the World, 1830 to 1914 Economic dominance brings cultural dominance and the architecture of Empire...
St. Paul's Cathedral at 300: The Recent Refurbishment Project A continuation of the story of St Paul's... 2011 is...
The End of the Old World Order, 1530 to 1650 The Reformation and the Civil War, two events a century...
The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Development in the Western World since 1700 At the end of the eighteenth century, the average British...