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War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: From Balkan War to World War, 1908-1918

This lecture explores in broad terms the origins, of the...

Waterloo: Causes, Courses and Consequences

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18th June 1815...

The Victorians: Religion and Science

If there was any single belief that characterised the Victorian...

'The Great Unwashed'

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was...

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - Dr William Harvey and the seventeenth-century medical revolution

The Victorians: Empire and Race

Science and religion came together to help shape the attitudes...

The Victorians: Art and Culture

The Victorian age began as an age of realism, in...

Hidden City

Composer Judith Bingham and Photographer Malcolm Crowthers debated the unique...

Gaza-Israel: The Legal and the Military View

‘War Crimes’ – do we use the term too casually...

Lessons from the Past, Warnings for the Future

The concluding lecture takes the example of HIV/AIDS and discusses...