Welcome Address for the Middle Class Recruits to Communism Seminar Professor Sir Roderick Floud, the Provost of Gresham College welcomes...
Playing Catch-up: Palaces from the Hundred Years' War to the Wars of the Roses What was the difference between the fortress of a great...
Reading as a Reader and Reading as a Critic Does analysing a book 'spoil' its charm? Does understanding the...
The Museum and Historical Collections of the Bank of England The Museum provides information about the purposes of the Bank, the...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
Entertainment in London in the 18th Century Using extracts from personal family collections, diaries, handbills and other...
Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel It is argued that Copernicus’ theory of the sun-centred universe...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: Women in Red Fashionable dress in the nineteenth century had a moral dimension...
Modern Reading in Historical Context: From Gutenberg to Naked Women Did the publication of Goethe’s epistolary novel, ‘The Sorrows of...