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Some London heroes of science and technology

GRESHAM IN THE CITY LECTURE London has been a magnet...

Why Did Europe’s Economies Diverge from Asia?

The levels of income in parts of China and India...

The Modern Goddess

This lecture looks at how and why a particular form...

"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement

How did what started as a temperance movement become a...

The Victorians: Art and Culture

The Victorian age began as an age of realism, in...

Anglo-American relations: Where we are, and how we got there

‘They live by Trade’: Britain’s global trade in the Great Days of Sail

Britain's history has been shaped by its relationship with the...

On Top of the World, 1830 to 1914

Economic dominance brings cultural dominance and the architecture of Empire...

The Londonderry Plantation from 1641 until the Disengagement at the end of the Nineteenth Century

The events that led to the Londonderry Plantation had momentous...

The Institutionalisation of the Arts in Early Victorian England

The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of...