Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891) And the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis The illustrated lecture will examine Bazalgette’s achievement and the work involved in building this latest addition to it.
Citizen Authors and Their Heroes: Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and Sir Thomas Gresham As part of the Literary Londoners series, this lecture focuses...
How to be a Shakespearean Atheist This lecture will explore how the sixteenth century found ways of distancing itself from religion.
The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality 'Victorian' came in the twentieth century to stand for sexual...
The Victorians: Religion and Science If there was any single belief that characterised the Victorian...