During the period of almost thirteen years that I have […]

At 2 p.m. on Thursday, October 7, 1819, Governor Lachlan […]

No one in this room needs to be told of the horror and the tragedy of the Holocaust. It was the defining moral event of the twentieth century. Virtually everyone in this room was personally touched, either directly or indirectly, by those events. The significance of remembrance is now well established, at least to people such as us. It is not always so well established to others. Whilst it may be true that, for many, there is a certain amount of overload on the subject of the Holocaust, nevertheless, it is a theme that repeats itself again and again. We cannot leave it alone because of the extraordinary range of human characteristics, ranging from satanic evil on the one hand to the most self-denying personal altruism on the other, which it evoked.

For several centuries the Inns of Court were called “The […]

The multiple national enlightenments of eighteenth-century Europe had common themes […]