‘Killers of the King’ with Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
May 14, 2015
On Tuesday 12 May, the University and the Department of History were delighted to welcome Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, to deliver a lecture entitled ‘Killers of the King’. The lecture dealt with the subject matter of Earl Spencer’s new book, Killers of the King: The Men who Dared Execute Charles I, which tells the shocking …
Popular Culture Lecture Series review and final public event
May 8, 2015
Mathieu Donner, PhD research student, PG Teaching Fellow in the School of English and organiser of the Popular Culture Lecture Series, reflects on the programme. “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Opening a blog post on popular culture with …
