The Art of Architecture – Ancient to the 16th Century
The Art of Architecture - Ancient to the 16th Century Come and explore the history of architecture from its beginnings in the ancient world to the present time. This three lecture overview with James Willis will take you to ancient Egypt and Rome, the French Cathedrals, English Country gardens, modern New York and so much […]
Persian Empires Since the Achaemenids
The philosopher Georg Hegel trumpeted the Achaemenids as launching the historical process by creating the earliest empire in the modern sense of rule over a number of peoples. Cyrus established this great empire, from the Indus to the Aegean Sea, before the unification of China or the expansion of Rome. The Arabs might have conquered […]
The Roman Empire
The Roman Empire of Augustus and Marcus Aurelius might have collapsed more than fifteen hundred years ago but it has persisted in the imaginations of Europeans around the world as the very archetype of empire. Recently we’re told (who knows on what basis) that the average European or American male thinks about the Roman Empire […]
Whose Wine is it Anyway?
Do you fancy yourself a wine connoisseur? If so then join us for a fun evening of wine tasting coupled with a quiz. Our three experts will tell you all about the wine you are tasting, but which one of them is telling the truth? With 7 to 8 different wines to taste, your guesses […]
Albums Classiques – Spécial Français A talk on Édith Piaf’s Récital 1961 & Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire De Melody Nelson
In a new edition of our Classic Albums series, a Spécial Français, we take a deep dive into two LPs that neatly bracket the 1960s and illustrate the diversity of French popular music in this most tumultuous of decades. Édith Piaf’s Recital 1961 was a live recording made at the Paris Olympia the previous December […]
