Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative...
Medieval Carols Jeremy Summerly traces the early history of the world’s favourite musical genre with sung illustrations from the St Luke's Carollers of Chelsea.
The Queen's Commonwealth: Monarchy and the End of Empire, 1945-2011 As Glasgow prepares to host the Commonwealth Games, Professor Philip...
The Spanish Culture of Charles I's Court Heir to the throne Charles I made a secret trip to win the hand of a princess. For eight months he was the guest of the Spanish king in Madrid.
Prison and Why We Send People There: Does it Work? Should it? ‘They deserve to be put away’; ‘Appeal the sentence –...
The Last Stuarts and the Death of the Royal Powerhouse In his short reign James II built a surprising amount...