The Iconography of Blindness: How artists have portrayed the blind Blind people have always been with us. The attitudes of...
The Gresham Ship: An Armed Elizabethan Merchantman recovered from the Thames The talk will summarise the discovery (2003), recovery and research...
Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Girl of the Period By the second half of the nineteenth century it was...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...
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...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Crinoline Cage The middle of the nineteenth century was the great age...