Vesta Tilley laid the foundation stone of what is now the Sunderland Empire on 29 September 1906 and took to the stage on 1 July 1907 to officially declare the theatre open. Masterminded by two of the ...

Guest: Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and the author of several books, including The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón, Death and the Idea of ...