The Novel & Idealism: George Sand's 'Francois le champi' (The Country Waif) The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the rapid ascendancy of...
London’s Lost Rivers: The Hackney Brook and other North West Passages Iain Sinclair takes a look at the rivers of London...
The Jacobean Space Programme - Wings, springs and gunpowder: flying to the moon from 17th century England An expert in the history of science, Allan Chapman is...
The BBC - Protecting it from the Government For 80 years the BBC Governors were charged with regulating...
London’s Ecology - Future ecological planning Carolyn Harrison, Emeritus Professor of Geography, University College London.
New social benefits from an old Docklands discovery 2006 marks the sesquicentenary of William Perkin's discovery of mauveine...
The BBC - Defending the public interest From 2007 the Governors were replaced by Trustees; but there...
The Novel as Political History: Stendhal's 'Le rouge et le noir' Can a novel tell us something about political history that...