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Everyone Expects the Spanish Inquisition: The Making of Spain's 'Black Legend'
Spain became a byword for cruelty in much of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whether it was the brutality of American colonisation…
6 years, 5 months ago
Exporting Russia: Diaghilev's Beginnings
The great Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev didn't have the talents to become an artist or the money to become a patron. His gift was to inspir…
6 years, 5 months ago
Archers Assemble: Creating The Powell-Pressburger Partnership
When Alexander Korda teamed Michael Powell with Emeric Pressburger in 1939, a lasting partnership between this Englishman and refugee Hungarian must …
6 years, 5 months ago
Musical Openings
The hammerblow introduction to Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony and the iconic four-note opening motif of the 5th Symphony, the unresolve…
6 years, 5 months ago
James I: The Court at Play
Before he became King of England in 1603 James I had never set foot in an English royal palace. What he found when he did was a mixed blessing: he ma…
6 years, 5 months ago
Striking the Balance Between Common Sense and Legal Reasoning
THE 2019 GRAY'S INN READING
Lord Kerr intends to address the recent decision in Stocker v Stocker and the challenges which confront judges when r…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Weimar Republic: Germany's First Democracy
THE 2019 PROVOST'S LECTURE
A century has passed since the establishment of the ill-fated Weimar Republic, founded in August 1919 and superseded 1…
6 years, 8 months ago
Sir Thomas Gresham 1519-2019
THE 2019 SIR THOMAS GRESHAM ANNUAL LECTURE
A special illustrated lecture will be presented by Dr John Guy to commemorate the 500th Anniversary of the …
6 years, 8 months ago
Byron and the Age of Sensation
Jonathan Bate will explore the life and work of the original celebrity poet - Lord Byron.
He will show how Byron was simultaneously a Romantic and an…
6 years, 8 months ago
Wellbeing at the Bar? Is a Legal Aid Lawyer's Work all Stress and Distress?
Over the course of her Professorship, Professor Delahunty has striven to talk openly about the way in which the Family Court deals with emotive and c…
6 years, 8 months ago