The Operatic Showstopper: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ This lecture considers ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ from Carousel (1945)...
Unwrapping Irving Berlin’s "White Christmas" This festive lecture explores the unusual roots of the song...
Why Writing Women Back into History Matters Rediscovering remarkable historical figures such as the Birka Warrior Woman...
The Sondheim Showstopper: ‘Send in the Clowns’ 'Send in the Clowns’ was probably the most commercially successful...
Humans as Prey: the Spectre of the Alpha Predator European dragons occupied a very specific pyschological relationship with humanity...
Artificial Selection: How Humans Have Shaped Evolution We often think of evolution as ‘something that happened’ in...
A 300,000-Year History of Human Evolution The species we recognise as our own - anatomically modern...
Were There Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe? This lecture considers a set of superhuman female figures found...