The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a...
Charles Chaplin: Bridging Three Centuries This lecture explores the phenomenon of Chaplin's mythical status not...
Press Coverage of Mental Health and Suicide A reflection on press coverage of mental health issues and...
Satire, print shops and comic illustration in late eighteenth and nineteenth century London This lecture tells the story of visual satire in London...
The Role of the Media in Post-Conflict Societies: A Contemporary Look at Northern Ireland Since Northern Ireland's sectarian politics turned to power-sharing in 1998...
Adventures of Portuguese 'Ancient Music' in Eighteenth-Century London 'Ancient music' enjoyed a vogue in eighteenth-century London, with professional...
Town and Crown: Why London never became an imperial capital How London developed differently from the other great capitals of...