"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...
The Museum and Historical Collections of the Bank of England The Museum provides information about the purposes of the Bank, the...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Beyond 'Surprise or Satisfy' a New Theory of Performance That the key to an audience's attention is to fulfil...
More Means Better: Fifty years of Higher Education Kingsley Amis famously argued that, in higher education, "More Means...
The Guitar, the Steamship and the Picnic: England on the Move In the early nineteenth century, there developed an intimate and...
London - The Forgotten Hanseatic City: The Hanseatic League The first part of the symposium included the following talks...
Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative...
The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...