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Slavery, Ships and Sickness - Professor Stuart Anderson
The full-rigged ship was the essential technology that enabled the trans-Atlantic slave trade to flourish. Between 1698 and 1807 around 11,000 ships …
1 day, 5 hours ago
St. Paul's Cathedral at 300 - Martin Stancliffe
2011 is the 300th anniversary of the completion of Christopher Wren's Cathedral. This coincides with the completion of an historic £40 million progra…
1 day, 6 hours ago
The Form and Function of Medieval Hospitals - Professor Carole Rawcliffe
Professor Carole Rawcliffe offers an overview of the hospital as it existed in the Middle Ages, along the way outlining the place of women and religi…
1 day, 6 hours 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…
1 day, 7 hours ago
Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891) And the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis
2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, and will see the building of the first major addition to the system he create…
1 day, 8 hours ago
A Sense Of The Sacred: Art and Architecture - Professor Frances Spalding
By exploring the architecture, stained glass windows and art installations of a variety of religious buildings, Frances Spalding shows the numerous w…
1 day, 9 hours ago
The Making Of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - Dr Sally Dormer
Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most beautiful artefacts to survive from the Middle Ages. Their production involved transforming animal skin…
1 day, 10 hours ago
Hippocrates and Ancient Greek Medicine
The birth of rational medicine contributed to the scientific revolution which occurred amongst eastern Greek communities in the 7th-to-5th centuries …
1 day, 11 hours ago
Silence, and the Dynamising of African Creative Resistance
In the face of enslavement, colonialism and cultural suppression, peoples of African descent have fought to maintain cherished cultural practices.
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1 day, 11 hours ago
Mergers and Acquisitions: Do They Create or Destroy Value?
Mergers and acquisitions (M and A) are perhaps the most important decisions that a company ever faces, yet very many deals destroy substantial value.…
1 day, 12 hours ago