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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...

Our Marble Tribute

Between 1795 and 1815, the British Government spent an amazing...

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...

Gaza-Israel: The Legal and the Military View

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

A World Remade by Decolonization?

The lecture shares perspectives from global history, comparative politics, and...

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

Lessons from the Past, Warnings for the Future

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