The Iconography of Blindness: How artists have portrayed the blind Blind people have always been with us. The attitudes of...
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...
War Halls: Royal Houses from the Saxons to the Hundred Years' War Medieval kings were warriors and their palaces needed to reflect...
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...
Ancient Reading in an Historical Context This lecture will explore the varying ways in which people...