The Novel & Idealism: George Sand's 'Francois le champi' (The Country Waif) The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the rapid ascendancy of...
London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The Russo-Turkish War, 1875-1878 This is the least-known of the wars discussed in this...
The Reform Club: Architecture and the birth of popular government Professor Peter Marsh, Honorary Professor of History at the University...
North America's Largest Act of Slave Resistance? This lecture will reveal and analyse the history of the...
The Lost Hospitals of London: Bethlem Hospital - Worth a Visit? Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London’s charitable provision...
The American Presidency: George H W Bush The older Bush, like Carter, was a one-term president. Yet...
Imperial Rivalry with the Russian Empire During the nineteenth century, Great Britain and Russia engaged in...