War Games at the Field of the Cloth of Gold 2020 marks the 500th anniversary of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, one of the most extraordinary diplomatic events of the late medieval period.
AI Weapons, War and Ethics This lecture will explore fully autonomous weapons, the products of AI technology, and the arguments for and against their use.
King Henry III and the Communication of Power This lecture considers how Henry III of England used art to justify monarchy at the dawn of what is commonly termed the ‘parliamentary state’.
The Institutionalisation of the Arts in Early Victorian England The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture for the Public Understanding of...
‘The Four Chaplains’: The Judeo-Christian Norm in America The heroic story of four chaplains – two Protestants, a...
Discovering Evil: The Moral Shock of Concentration Camps for American Soldiers ‘We are told that the American soldier does not know...
Philip Quaque: The African ordained in the Church of England Though history tends to focus on the white abolitionists, the...
War and the Origins of the Abolition Movement What began the process of Abolition? When did this minority...
Liberalism, Autonomy and Rights (Lecture 1) The first of two lectures discussing the centrality of the...