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More complex than Graunt could imagine: Theoretical and practical thoughts about tempo effects in the conventional period life table

The Victorians: Life and Death

The nineteenth century, above all in Europe, was the age...

Why do we hate? Why do we help? Asylum seekers and ambivalence in contemporary Britain

Psychoanalytic theory illuminates the polarised nature of the asylum debate...

Heading for Trouble: The perils of navigation

This lecture was a part of the SeaBritrain2005 series of...

The American Way of War in History and Politics

FULBRIGHT LECTURE The recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have...

Ritual Protection Marks and Witchcraft at Knole, Kent

An historic building survey at Knole, Kent enabled a very...

Work and Education: Caribbean Migrations

This is a part of the series of four lectures...

'Le habit noir' - Men in Black

In 1863 Charles Baudelaire, wrote about the ‘Painter of Modern...

Summit Diplomacy: Some Lessons from History for 21st Century Leaders

‘It is not easy to see how matters could be...

Portugal and England, 1386-2010

Portugal and England, 1386-2010: A complex web of political, economic...