The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake Often described as the ultimate Renaissance Man, Mervyn Peake was...
Mary Rose: The first Ship of our Standing Navy 2009 marks the 500th anniversary of the Mary Rose, the...
The Christian reticence of W H Auden Auden was arguably the most prodigiously talented of the great...
The challenge of atheist literature: Beckett, Pullman and McEwan Some works of literature today are written from a consciously...
SeaChange: Reversing the Tide The highly-acclaimed lecture/performance combines the knowledge of science and the...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
An Engine of Commerce? Steam Technology and Global Maritime Trade, 1860-1910: Studies in success and failure The rapid growth in world trade in the 19th century...
Textual Communities: How do we recognise value in the verbal arts? A lecture to consider some of the new approaches to...