To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake Often described as the ultimate Renaissance Man, Mervyn Peake was...
The Christian reticence of W H Auden Auden was arguably the most prodigiously talented of the great...
The challenge of atheist literature: Beckett, Pullman and McEwan Some works of literature today are written from a consciously...
SeaChange: Reversing the Tide The highly-acclaimed lecture/performance combines the knowledge of science and the...
Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), seemed to...
Textual Communities: How do we recognise value in the verbal arts? A lecture to consider some of the new approaches to...
Will Cross-Cultural Theatre ever work on the English Stage? A lecture that approaches the question of the survival of...