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A Swift Survey of Fundamentalism: 'The Fundamentalist Mentality'

17th Century: Plague

Stephen Porter, Assistant Editor, Survey of London Section, English Heritage...

Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940–1945

The Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture This lecture highlights the...

Imperial Rivalry with the Russian Empire

During the nineteenth century, Great Britain and Russia engaged in...

The American Presidency: Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon, tainted by Watergate, is widely seen as the...

Twenty-first Century Threats: Malaria

In 1955, the World Health Organization announced an ambitious plan...

The Dutch East Indies Company - The Second 100 Years

This lecture focuses on the second hundred years of the...

The Legal Quays: Sir William Paulet, First Marquis of Winchester

Sir William Paulet (c.1483-1572) is perhaps unique in his long...

The Lord Mayor of London: Reflections on a medieval role in the modern City

The position of the Lord Mayor of London has existed...

Pilgrimages, Pandemics and the Past

Between us and the medieval men and women who went...