Crime in Fiction: Defoe and Dickens to Spark, Highsmith and McEwan Why did stories of criminals become irresistible for novelists? Starting...
Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 This lecture explores new ways of understanding the crisis that...
The American Way of War in History and Politics FULBRIGHT LECTURE The recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have...
The Long Shadow: The Great War and International Memory, 1914-2014 1914-18 casts a long shadow across the 20th century. This...
The Death Penalty: A Colonial Relic? This lecture explores the death penalty's roots, its abolition in...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
Race, Disability & Education: Law's Uphill Battle This lecture traces the history of race and disability law...
The Military History of the First World War: An Overview and Analysis This lecture will analyse the reasons for the failure in...