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Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597 and continues the tradition with new lectures every week. Each lecture is an hour long and is available for download as either MP3 or MP4 files. As well as the eight Gresham Professors who deliver ...
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597 and continues the tradition with new lectures every week. Each lecture is an hour long and is available for download as either MP3 or MP4 files. As well as the eight Gresham Professors who deliver annual lecture series, we have a stream of acclaimed visiting lecturers who talk on topics as varied as history, politics, art, astronomy, religion, mathematics and much more. Visit our website for further information: www.gresham.ac.uk
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Is Theatre History? The Alternative Explosion - Sam Walters
We have just lived through the century of film and ...
We have just lived through the century of film and television, and now we are in the new digital age. Is the survival of the theatre now really threatened? If so, how should the challenge be met?
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Reducing Inequalities in Child Health: What counts? What works? What matters? - Professor Helen Roberts
In the UK, children from poorer backgrounds are more likely ...
In the UK, children from poorer backgrounds are more likely to be born small, born early and die in childhood. Professor Helen Roberts describes something of what counts, what works and what matters in the fight against inequality in child health.
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Vienna and Schubert: Piano Duet Fantasy in Fm, D. 940 - Professor Christopher Hogwood
A lecture by Christopher Hogwood on Franz Schubert and Vienna, ...
A lecture by Christopher Hogwood on Franz Schubert and Vienna, followed by a full performance of Schubert's piano duet Fantasy in F minor D.940 by Florian Mitrea and Alexandra Vaduva.
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London Theatre: Past Glories, Today’s Success and Tomorrow’s Opportunities - Julian Bird
A lecture on the history of London theatre and its ...
A lecture on the history of London theatre and its relative strengths in the world today. What is the important economic impact of London theatre around the world and what are some of the opportunities and challenges which lie ahead?
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The End of Slobodan Milošević - Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice
Milošević died a few months before the end of his ...
Milošević died a few months before the end of his trial. There were no closing arguments and there was no judgment by the judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Sir Geoffrey Nice had been preparing closing arguments as th
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Darwin and Derivatives - Charles Taylor
How might the modern financial sector learn lessons from Darwin's ...
How might the modern financial sector learn lessons from Darwin's theory of evolution?
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Anatomy Museums: Past, Present and Future - Professor William Ayliffe
A short history of dissection, anatomy museums and some of ...
A short history of dissection, anatomy museums and some of the gruesome characters involved.
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The Black Death - Professor Sir Richard Evans
The history of the Bubonic Plague and its devastating effects ...
The history of the Bubonic Plague and its devastating effects on medieval Europe, but also its other appearances in world history such as in 6th Century Byzantium and in Asia throughout the 19th century.
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Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Calculus and its Limits - Professor Raymond Flood
The history of calculus and the origins of what is ...
The history of calculus and the origins of what is now called analysis, from the 18th to the 19th Centuries. On the way figures such as Newton, Leibniz, Bishop Berkeley and Augustin-Louis Cauchy will be addressed.
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In Mahler's Footsteps - Keith James Clarke
Architect Keith James Clarke experiences the Austrian landscape and scenery ...
Architect Keith James Clarke experiences the Austrian landscape and scenery that inspired Mahler. He travels by foot and bicycle to rediscover Mahler's much-loved haunts.
