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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Anatomy of a Christmas Classic

This lecture investigates how and why the song ‘Have Yourself...

Red, Blue and white, old-fashioned record cover of 'Christmas Hits'

The Poetry of Prediction: Musical Time, Rhythm and Groove

Music is a temporal art, unfolding like a ribbon and...

Black hands playing drum

Twentieth-Century Divas: Barbra Streisand

Since her debut in Funny Girl, her bold vision and...

Photo of Barbra Streisand singing at microphone

Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa

Literature has always played a key role in social and...

Renowned Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong

Women of the Harlem Renaissance

In the early twentieth century Black creatives were America’s artistic...

Writer and artist Gwendolyn Bennett and magazine called Black Opal

Writing after Windrush

They came, they saw, they felt conquered. Turning to the...

Samuel Selvon and Pauline Henriques making a BBC broadcast

Why Music Moves Us

How is music able to convey and trigger such range...

Smiling audience at gig

Sickle Cell Disease: A Cultural History

Please note this lecture was rescheduled from its original date...

Young black woman in headscarf waiting on bench

AIDS: A Cultural History

AIDS is an example of a highly stigmatising ailment. This...

Hand holding red AIDS awareness ribbon

Life Without Chords? – Atonal Music

In the early 20th century, the system of tonal harmony...

a piece of sheet music partly burnt