The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...
Should we take our leaders as seriously as they take themselves? Political leaders invest time and energy in cultivating their public...
"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement How did what started as a temperance movement become a...
Banned Books and Freedom of Expression The right to free expression is severely threatened in many...
The Communist Party of Great Britain and Middle Class Recruits Professor Morgan, of the University of Manchester, examines the wider...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
More Means Better: Fifty years of Higher Education Kingsley Amis famously argued that, in higher education, "More Means...