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Britain and Germany: from ally to enemy

As France was the traditional enemy, Germany was the traditional...

"The fangs of the serpent are hid in the bowl": The Temperance Movement

How did what started as a temperance movement become a...

The Victorians: Empire and Race

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

The Historic Collections of Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace Library, founded in 1610, is the historic library and...

Quakers Living Adventurously: The Library and Archives of the Society of Friends

Since the seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of...

Perversion

What is a perversion? This talk starts by exploring psychiatric and sexological debates about perverted sexual desires from the late nineteenth century textbooks to diagnostic manuals in the twenty-first century. It looks at the role of law, morality, and medicine. Who has the power to decide what sexual acts are 'normal' or 'abnormal'? By what mechanisms do sexual practices move from one category to the other? How have people labelled 'perverse' effectively challenged their status in society?

Triads, Major and Minor

The major triad is considered the foundation of tonal music...

The Spanish Culture of Charles I's Court

Heir to the throne Charles I made a secret trip to win the hand of a princess. For eight months he was the guest of the Spanish king in Madrid.

Aristotle

Plato’s most brilliant student and perhaps the most significant intellectual in world history, Aristotle built on Plato’s doctrines but also radically disagreed with them.

Anglo-American relations: Where we are, and how we got there