London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The Russo-Turkish War, 1875-1878 This is the least-known of the wars discussed in this...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
North America's Largest Act of Slave Resistance? This lecture will reveal and analyse the history of the...
Decolonization: The End of Empire? European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918...
The Lost Hospitals of London: Bethlem Hospital - Worth a Visit? Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London’s charitable provision...
Formal and Informal Empire in the Nineteenth Century From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s...
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire In 1945, the imperial possessions of Great Britain circled the...