The BBC - Protecting it from the Government For 80 years the BBC Governors were charged with regulating...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: War and Revolution in 1848 The international settlement reached at the Congress of Vienna in...
Slavery - The US perspective: From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Dr Alan Sked, The London School of Economics and Political...
The Curse of the poke bonnet: Television's version of history The Colin Matthew lecture for the public understanding of history.
The Novel & Idealism: George Sand's 'Francois le champi' (The Country Waif) The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the rapid ascendancy of...
London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The Russo-Turkish War, 1875-1878 This is the least-known of the wars discussed in this...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
The Lost Hospitals of London: Bethlem Hospital - Worth a Visit? Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London’s charitable provision...
Formal and Informal Empire in the Nineteenth Century From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s...