Magical Mystery Tour: The Invention of The Beatles This lecture analyses the ‘psychedelic era’ of the Beatles, from...
Musical Consonance and Dissonance: The Good, Bad and Beautifully Ugly What makes a piece of music challenging, bland, intriguing, beautiful...
An Infernal Spark: Drink, Addiction and Disease Addiction is a familiar feature of contemporary society. Not only...
Debussy - Text and Ideas: Fête galante and the Salon of Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a resurgence...
Agincourt or Azincourt? Victory, Defeat, and the War of 1415 In the year of the battle's 600th anniversary, Agincourt remains...
Debussy and Mallarme: Symbolism and Les Mardistes Les Mardistes was a group of intellectuals who met every...
From the European Coal and Steel Community to the Common Market This lecture analyses early moves towards European unity in the...
The Long Shadow: The Great War and International Memory, 1914-2014 1914-18 casts a long shadow across the 20th century. This...