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Mazurkas and Christmas Lullabies

The tradition of the East-Central European carol is long and...

Imperial Rivalry with the Russian Empire

During the nineteenth century, Great Britain and Russia engaged in...

Depression: Reality and Myth

Professor Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS, Professor of Biology as Applied...

Does attractiveness rule the world?

Babies only a few months old already spend more time...

Irony in music from the Soviet Union

This lecture concert explored how irony was used in music...

St Stanislaus and Student Revelries

The Lisbon Earthquake: Two hundred and fifty years on

On 1 November 1755, Lisbon was devastated by a massive...

The left, right and centre of male and female brain politics

The two sides of our brain are not functionally equivalent...

How vital is motivation in our lives?

Raj Persaud uses examples of extraordinary success to discuss what...

Music in History

How well served is music in general and cultural histories...