The birth of heritage and the fabrication of history This lecture will examine how heritage protection began and went...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
Medieval Music: To Sing and Dance During the eighteenth century, Western Europe gradually relinquished a form...
1665: London's Last Great Plague 350 years ago, London experienced a devastating outbreak of plague...
The Hidden Face of British Gardening Gardening has been big business since the 17th century, but how can we measure its growth and economic importance?
Light from the Orkneys: Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown The Orkneys produced two remarkable 20th century poets, for both...
Making Software 'Correct by Construction' Is it possible to build software so that you know that is is correct? How could this be done? Has anyone tried? What would it cost?
Logarithms: Mobile Phones, Modelling & Statistics? Logarithms were perhaps once thought of as just an old-fashioned...