The Bayeux Tapestry is a unique medieval artefact with an extraordinary history. It has survived for almost a thousand years despite misuse, fire, revolution, exploitation and attempted theft. This lecture will trace its history.
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Would you like to learn how to read medieval handwriting in original documents? Join us for this weekend event, studying the basics of the most common scripts, covering the history of handwriting and taking practical examples from popular record types.
This lecture explores Thatcher’s electoral success, economic transformation, and confrontations with organised labour, highlighting how her leadership secured repeated victories before divisions over Europe led to her removal.
Crimea has always been too tempting a trophy to resist. It carries the scars of successive civilisations that have claimed, shaped, and reshaped it. To this day, it remains a prize fought over by competing peoples and ideologies.
This lecture series will evaluate the most controversial decisions in international relations since the end of the Cold War. It focuses on the balance of decision making between diplomacy and military conflict.
This lecture will reassess Bush’s path to the Gulf War, from early hesitation and pressure for diplomacy to a hardened stance shaped by domestic and strategic factors, culminating in Desert Storm and the liberation of Kuwait.
Discover Aphrodite beyond the familiar goddess of beauty: a powerful and complex deity of love, desire and persuasion, whose influence shaped Greek religion, myth and literature - and whose power could be creative, compelling and dangerous.
Join us in Oxford for this walking tour and examine the city's remarkable collection of grotesques and gargoyles. How has a medieval tradition found popularity in the present? What codes are hidden in the stones? Bring binoculars for close-up views!
This lecture explores Major’s 1992 election victory and political skill, set against the impact of Black Wednesday and deep party divisions over Europe, which ultimately led to his government’s defeat in 1997.
This lecture will reassess Bush’s path to the Gulf War, from early hesitation and pressure for diplomacy to a hardened stance shaped by domestic and strategic factors, culminating in Desert Storm and the liberation of Kuwait.
This course examines the institution of human slavery in the southern United States from its colonial beginnings, to its emergence as the most powerful slave system in the world, to its collapse during the Civil War.
This lecture examines Blair’s electoral success and New Labour modernisation, highlighting public service investment and reform, while assessing the limits of his authority, particularly over the failed bid to join the Eurozone.