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The Victorians: Art and Culture

The Victorian age began as an age of realism, in...

A choir of ex-slaves, raising funds to build their University, toured America from 1871, suffering discrimination and hardship.

In this lecture, we glimpse our best selves and compare...

Ever since modern economic growth began three centuries ago, people...

Our brains are computers. What if we could enhance their...

This lecture looks at how and why a particular form...

By the second half of the nineteenth century it was...

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, communication was slow...

Charles Dickens was drawn, painted and photographed more than most...