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...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...
London 1616: a snapshot of London early in James 1's reign This talk was given by Dr Ann Saunders, a leading...
Textual Communities: How do we recognise value in the verbal arts? A lecture to consider some of the new approaches to...