Shakespeare, 'The Tempest' and its City Connections This lecture focuses on Shakespeare, in particular his final solo...
Sir Robert Moray - Soldier, scientist, spy, freemason and founder of The Royal Society Sir Robert Moray brought together members of Gresham College, rich...
Your night is my day: London’s Underground never sleeps As the commuters of London leave and the last tubes...
Film Music: Hitchcock's Psycho Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece is inextricably tied up with its...
1665: London's Last Great Plague 350 years ago, London experienced a devastating outbreak of plague...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The Wars of German Unification, 1864-1871 In three short, sharp military conflicts, the Kingdom of Prussia...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...