Trading Identities: The image of the merchant What was a merchant in 16th Century Europe, and what...
Dickens's Public Readings: A Tale of Two Desks This illustrated lecture marks 150 years since Dickens’s death by reflecting on the nature of his creative genius and his legacy.
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...
Revolutionary State? Royal Palaces in Cromwell's England The execution of Charles I brought about the sale of...
Restoration and Reaction: Palaces of the Restoration Charles II's court has often been portrayed as devoted to...
The Building of England: Retrospect and Prospect 410 AD to 2000 In this the final lecture in his series on the...
Dickens’s law makers and law breakers: Barnard's Inn and beyond Dickens had no love for lawyers. He had been trained...