Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Girl of the Period By the second half of the nineteenth century it was...
The Museum and Historical Collections of the Bank of England The Museum provides information about the purposes of the Bank, the...
The Work of the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court The DMRC (established in 1946) is the largest provider of...
The Second World War: Shellshock to Psychiatry Psychiatric casualties are acknowledged today as inevitable and important consequences...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
War Halls: Royal Houses from the Saxons to the Hundred Years' War Medieval kings were warriors and their palaces needed to reflect...
Entertainment in London in the 18th Century Using extracts from personal family collections, diaries, handbills and other...
Entry into the European Community, 1971-73 This lecture analyses the reasons for the successful negotiations between...
Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel It is argued that Copernicus’ theory of the sun-centred universe...