Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...
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...
Where did the war-time dream go wrong? In 1944, the Butler Act introduced the 'Tripartite System' to...
Do the British know what education is for? What should the aims of education be? Does Britain have...
Who is responsible for bringing up our children: home or school? A hundred years ago it was almost unanimously accepted that...
What is the role of the independent schools in British education? In the wake of the Education Reform Act the private...