Prokofiev's War and Peace Sergei Prokofiev’s War and Peace (1953) was an adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel begun during WWII. He saw it as a personal interpretation of the novel.
Charles Chaplin: Bridging Three Centuries This lecture explores the phenomenon of Chaplin's mythical status not...
Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend While Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens are now...
Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
Entertainment in London in the 18th Century Using extracts from personal family collections, diaries, handbills and other...
Rich and Learn'd: the library of Gresham College Irene Gilchrist, archivist at the Guildhall Library, explores in this...
Galileo’s Journey to the Underworld: The Case for Interdisciplinary Thinking In 1588, the young Galileo delivered some lectures that were...
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