Events

Overview Join Molly Housego as they ask what we really know about Boudica, her culture and the world in which she lived. Boudican Revolt and the Late Iron Age The Boudican Revolt of 60/61 CE remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic episodes in this island’s history. This lecture asks what we really know […]

Overview Join Dr. Julia Firmin as they explore whether meaning can be rebuilt after crisis, and if a world marked by rupture feels familiar today. A World Unmade: Literature and the Crisis of Meaning This lecture explores literature shaped by disillusionment, disorientation and dread, asking whether a world marked by rupture and uncertainty feels familiar […]

Overview Join Dr. Jerome Gasson as they uncover the hidden world of dishonest farm managers and the specialist auditors trained to expose them. Medieval Auditors and the Fight Against Corruption Think you would be clever enough to cheat the system in fourteenth-century England? This lecture uncovers the hidden world of dishonest medieval farm managers and […]

Overview Join Dan Clarke as they examine the different purposes, meanings and mentalities behind the macabre public display of criminals. Murderers Displayed: In the Gibbet Cage and at Shire Hall This lecture explores the unsettling history of the gibbet cage and the public display of criminal corpses during the period of the Bloody Code. Using […]