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Dealing with Sex Abuse: How Does the Family Court Assess Risk?

What effect do these cases have on the professionals involved? How does the family justice system confront these emotive and complex cases?

Shakespeare's Politics

It is well known that Shakespeare lived in an age of monarchy and wrote powerfully in his English history plays about the duties of the sovereign. In this lecture, Jonathan Bate will tell another, forgotten story: of how Shakespeare was also fascinated by Roman political models.

Justice Online: Getting Better?

Joshua Rozenberg reports on what’s been achieved so far and asks whether online justice is just as good.

Should We Vote Online?

Some countries have adopted online voting and some have regarded it as extremely dangerous for democracy. What are the facts?

Happily Ever After: The Romance Story

Catherine Roach uncovers what we learn from the romance story about today’s changing norms for gender and sexuality and about the nature of happiness and love.

What Do Judges Do In The Family Court?

What do judges do in the Family Court? Follow me through a virtual week as a Roving Judge. Learn what goes on behind the scenes: how the family court room works and who is needed to make it work.

Lenin and the Russian Revolution

How, as a Marxist, did he justify the seizure of power and would the October Revolution have been possible without him? How in this centenary year, are these events being commemorated in Putin’s Russia?

English Landscape: Constable and Clare

Constable's Stour landscapes of the Regency period, during and just after the War with France, and his publication English Landscape Scenery, champion local and low-key rural England.

The Conservative Party

The Conservative Party is the oldest and one of the most successful political parties in the democratic world. It has been, for many years, the natural party of government. What is the secret of the party's extraordinary longevity and electoral success?

The Poetry of Robert Frost, The Power and Intrigue of Simile

Frost's line, 'I found a dimpled spider... holding up a moth like a white piece of rigid satin cloth' exploits simile... But how can a moth be like cloth? -This is one of a number of examples that will be explored with a view to refining our understanding of smilie.

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