The Guitar, the Steamship and the Picnic: England on the Move In the early nineteenth century, there developed an intimate and...
Beyond 'Surprise or Satisfy' a New Theory of Performance That the key to an audience's attention is to fulfil...
Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative...
Magical Mystery Tour: The Invention of The Beatles This lecture analyses the ‘psychedelic era’ of the Beatles, from...
Medieval Carols Jeremy Summerly traces the early history of the world’s favourite musical genre with sung illustrations from the St Luke's Carollers of Chelsea.
Bridgetower – Black Musicians and British Culture, 1807-2007 George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, the son of an Abyssinian slave...