Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalour - Dr Simon Thurley

By 1900 Britain had produced the world’s largest cities and the first industrial cities. These phenomena led to vast technical, social and architectural challenges. Victorian architects and engineers met these with some of the most impressive feats of construction since the cathedrals of the middle ages.

English Architecture: On Top of the World, 1830 to 1914 - Dr Simon Thurley

A lecture on the history of Victorian and Edwardian architecture in England.

English Architecture, 1760 to 1830: Engine House - Professor Simon Thurley

England’s take off as the first industrial nation created a whole new language of building underpinned by technology and by an emerging view of the rest of the world.

English Architecture, 1650 to 1760: The Rise of Consensus - Professor Simon Thurley

Opened up to the world once more in 1650, England drank in influences and ideas from abroad which were to infuse English building with widely held ideas and values.

The End of the Old World Order, 1530 to 1650 - Dr Simon Thurley

The Reformation and the Civil War, two events a century apart, created an astonishing originality and independence in English Building.

From Trocadero to Troxy: A tradition returns - John Abson and Richard Hills

Wurlitzer organs and the history of London music halls: the story of the Britain's largest cinema organ from 1930 through to the present day.

English Architecture: Coming of Age, 1408-1530 - Professor Simon Thurley

An investigation of the period which saw the perfection of a distinctive English architecture, before it was destroyed by Henry VIII and the Reformation.

How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 - Professor Simon Thurley

A look at the flourishing of distinctive English architecture in the 14th Century, against the backdrop of perhaps the most catastrophic period of history.

English Architecture, 1130-1300 - Professor Simon Thurley

The story of some of Europe’s most remarkable buildings, built during the new gothic period of 13th century England.