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...
Miracle Cures: Spas, Shrines and Spirits Professor John Pick outlines an 'industry' of relics, religious or...
Crime in Fiction: Defoe and Dickens to Spark, Highsmith and McEwan Why did stories of criminals become irresistible for novelists? Starting...
Science and Theology: Traffic Across the Frontier Both science and theology explore aspects of one world: they...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...
The Media and Religion: Religious Broadcasting - Defender of Faiths A lecture that sets out the argument for: 1) That...
The Sondheim Showstopper: ‘Send in the Clowns’ 'Send in the Clowns’ was probably the most commercially successful...
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...
Christianity and Religion: The Last 400 Years and the Next This is a series of lectures that included the following...