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Does Faith Make Sense of Things?

How can we find the best explanation of what we observe? Why do human beings enjoy pondering puzzles, such as the meaning of life? We can we learn much from Dorothy L. Sayers, whose detective novels and religious writings saw human beings as searching for 'patterns' in life.

What Do You Think More's Intention Was In Writing 'Utopia'?

A question from the lecture 'Thomas More's Magnificent Utopia' by...

Was There A Reaction From The Crown And Aristocracy In Response to 'Utopia'?

A question from the lecture 'Thomas More's Magnificent Utopia' by...

Thomas More's Magnificent Utopia

This lecture will explore Utopia’s links both with London and with the civic culture of Renaissance Europe more generally. It will focus on the significance of Utopia at the time when it was written, with some reflections on its remarkably varied legacy.

How Do We Put A 'Utopia' into Practice?

A question from the lecture 'Thomas More's Magnificent Utopia' by...

In the Context of the Common Law: The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg

The European Court of Human Rights has been at the crossroads of two legal civilizations: the Continental Civil Law on the one hand and the British Common Law on the other. Here we have two different approaches to reality.

Charles Dickens, 'Hard Times' and Hyperbole

Dickens' use of exaggeration is key to his style. But its use has myriad effects from making a character's disposition unmissable, to adding whimsy and humour.

Saving the Twentieth Century

How far can experimental buildings of the 1960s and '70s be altered for new uses? Should there be new rules for a new era of conservation?

Van Eyck's The Virgin with the Canon: Visual Disability and Societal Attitudes as Depicted in the Northern Renaissance

Examples of disease as shown in artworks will be examined, from the medical and surgical point of view as well as the historical and artistic ones, particularly visual loss as portrayed by artists from pre-historic times.

Did The SS Great Eastern Ever Sail To Australia?

A question from the lecture 'From Sail to Steam: London's...

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Does Faith Make Sense of Things?

What Do You Think More's Intention Was In Writing 'Utopia'?

Was There A Reaction From The Crown And Aristocracy In Response to 'Utopia'?

Thomas More's Magnificent Utopia

How Do We Put A 'Utopia' into Practice?

In the Context of the Common Law: The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg

Charles Dickens, 'Hard Times' and Hyperbole

Saving the Twentieth Century

Van Eyck's The Virgin with the Canon: Visual Disability and Societal Attitudes as Depicted in the Northern Renaissance

Did The SS Great Eastern Ever Sail To Australia?

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