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Convincing Fiction: Daniel Defoe to Ishiguro and Knausgaard

How does fiction make itself seem like fact? Professor John Mullan begins where novels begin: with Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which showed every novel that followed how to make a ‘strange surprising’ story seem entirely ‘probable’ (the word that eighteenth-century pioneers of fiction liked t

Gresham's Bequest to Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

The valuable bequest of Sir Thomas Gresham to the development of scientific interest in seventeenth-century England can be traced through the testimony of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn - not only great diarists but also ‘particular friends’.

John Colet and Sir Thomas More: The Philosophers, The Archbishop and The Sultan

In 1509 John Colet and Thomas More joined the Mercers'...

John F. Kennedy, President, 1961-1963

Kennedy's brief Presidency, terminated by assassination, still has glamour attached...

Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction

An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...

John Colet and Sir Thomas More: The Publishing Trade in London in the Early 16th Century

In 1509 John Colet and Thomas More joined the Mercers'...

John Graunt's Bills of Mortality: Panel Discussion

The celestial geometry of John Flamsteed: Mapping the heavens from 17th century Greenwich

During his 46 years as Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed elevated...

John Graunt, the law of decline and the origins of urban historical demography

Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World - John Major

Continuing last year's series of lectures, delivered by distinguished guest...