Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...
The 19th-century Taming of the Christmas Carol, from St Erth to Truro At the end of the Georgian era, a revivalist collection...
Elizabethan Merchant Ships and Shipbuilding Elizabeth’s galleons and other warships have attracted much attention, but...
The Poetry of Prediction: Musical Time, Rhythm and Groove Music is a temporal art, unfolding like a ribbon and...
The Concert of the Present Today's festival director has gone from administrator to creator; impresarii...
The Meaning of Everything: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words...
Music and Architecture: Confronting the Boundaries between Space and Sound The architect/mathematician turned composer, Iannis Xenakis, was Gresham Professor of...
Darwin, Evolution and God: The Present Debates This lecture sets the scientific and religious context for Darwin’s...
Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...