The Great Depression and ‘Embedded Liberalism’ The Great Depression posed a serious threat to capitalism as economic nationalism flourished and Communism and Fascism offered alternative models.
Middle Class Recruits to Communism in the 1930s Why did some idealistic young people join the Communist Party...
Medieval Carols Jeremy Summerly traces the early history of the world’s favourite musical genre with sung illustrations from the St Luke's Carollers of Chelsea.
International Criminal Tribunals: Experiments? Works in progress? Institutions that are here for good, or maybe not? In the last twenty years several international courts have been...
Philanthropy Then, Philanthropy Now This lecture outlines the challenges of modern-day society and how...
Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World - Alec Douglas-Home Continuing last year's series of lectures, delivered by distinguished guest...
North America's Largest Act of Slave Resistance? This lecture will reveal and analyse the history of the...