Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...
Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...
Forty Years of the Health Service Professor John Griffiths charts the history of the National Health...
Miracle Cures: Spas, Shrines and Spirits Professor John Pick outlines an 'industry' of relics, religious or...
Constable's "The Cornfield": A Bicentenary Harvesting Constable’s painting The Cornfield celebrates its bicentenary in 2026. How...
The Arts Industry: Culture and the 'Real World' This lecture takes a look at how the relationship between...
Advances in Medicine and their Social Aspects There have been far greater advances made in medicine over...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...