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Playing with the language of music

The pre-concert talk provides an overview to the series and...

The Victorians: Art and Culture

The Victorian age began as an age of realism, in...

Freedom Song: The Fisk Jubilee Singers' Story

A choir of ex-slaves, raising funds to build their University, toured America from 1871, suffering discrimination and hardship.

The Modern Goddess

This lecture looks at how and why a particular form...

Theatre and Language: Samuel Beckett, 'Waiting for Godot'

Beckett's Waiting for Godot has been interpreted in myriad ways...

Why learn a language?

With English emerging as the main world language, studying foreign...

Talking with Beasts: Human and animal languages

Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Girl of the Period

By the second half of the nineteenth century it was...

From Conquest to Control

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European...

The Victorians: Time and Space

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, communication was slow...