Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...
Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and...
To Blame or Not to Blame? The Medical Profession and Blame Culture Traditionally, medicine has been taught by imitation, apprenticeship and humiliation...
Stravinsky, Britten and the Lure of the Classical Past Professor Cross examines the themes of metamorphosis and other classical...
The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989 - Hitler The second lecture in the series turned to Germany, where...
The Price of Fish: Making sense of the way the world really works The Price of Fish addresses issues related to 'real' (as...