Medieval Music: To Sing and Dance During the eighteenth century, Western Europe gradually relinquished a form...
Galileo’s Journey to the Underworld: The Case for Interdisciplinary Thinking In 1588, the young Galileo delivered some lectures that were...
Why Writing Women Back into History Matters Rediscovering remarkable historical figures such as the Birka Warrior Woman...
Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
Were There Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe? This lecture considers a set of superhuman female figures found...
The Medieval Agricultural Revolution: New evidence During the medieval ‘agricultural revolution’, new forms of cereal farming...
War Games at the Field of the Cloth of Gold 2020 marks the 500th anniversary of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, one of the most extraordinary diplomatic events of the late medieval period.
Sir Thomas Gresham and the Tudor Court This lecture will explore Gresham’s service to the crown during the turbulent politics of mid-Tudor England.