Restoration and Reaction: Palaces of the Restoration Charles II's court has often been portrayed as devoted to...
From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers For many modern thinkers, the lawgiver has been important as...
The Bloomsbury Group: A Queer History This lecture will explore the world of the second Bloomsbury...
Taking the Constitution into the Classroom The U.S. Constitution had to be formed through debate before...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...
Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...