How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...
The Curse of the poke bonnet: Television's version of history The Colin Matthew lecture for the public understanding of history.
The Novel & Idealism: George Sand's 'Francois le champi' (The Country Waif) The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the rapid ascendancy of...
London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
The Politics of Architecture in Tudor and Stuart London How the Tudor and Stuart monarchs used the buildings of...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
The Lost Hospitals of London: Bethlem Hospital - Worth a Visit? Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London’s charitable provision...
The Londonderry Plantation from 1641 until the Disengagement at the end of the Nineteenth Century The events that led to the Londonderry Plantation had momentous...
Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...