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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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Privacy and Publicity in Family Law: Their Eternal Tension - The Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Wall
There is general agreement among non-family lawyers that family procedures ...
There is general agreement among non-family lawyers that family procedures should be more transparent. But exactly what role should the media play in matters of family justice?
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Berlioz, the Grande Messe des Morts and the Absence of God - David Cairns
Leading Berlioz scholar and biographer, David Cairns, discusses Berlioz's Grande ...
Leading Berlioz scholar and biographer, David Cairns, discusses Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts Op. 5 (Requiem)in the context of Berlioz's ambiguous relationship to religion.
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Literary London Crime: The Dark Eyes of London - Cathi Unsworth
London is a city of secrets, a shifting, seething mass ...
London is a city of secrets, a shifting, seething mass of intrigue, venality and violence, in constant cultural flux. The perfect setting for crime fiction - but how does the modern writer decode this centuries' old conurbation? Cathi Unsworth investigate
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What has the City ever done for us? - The Lord Mayor of London
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor of London, Alderman David ...
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor of London, Alderman David Wootton, examines the role, contribution and connections of the City and business - fundamental elements of our community.
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Parliament and the Public: Strangers or Friends? - The Rt Hon John Bercow
The Speaker of the House of Commons addresses the questions ...
The Speaker of the House of Commons addresses the questions of how the House of Commons can engage more effectively with the public which it serves and how modern technology can assist in this enterprise.
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The Postmodern Detective: Contemporary London Crime Fiction - Dr Jenny Bavidge
Have recent London crime stories abandoned their confidence in the ...
Have recent London crime stories abandoned their confidence in the interpretative abilities of the detective? Can we still believe in omniscient figures such as Dickens’ Inspector Bucket or Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes? Is London still a place where myst
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Star Dust - Professor Carolin Crawford
Interstellar space is not truly a vacuum devoid of matter. ...
Interstellar space is not truly a vacuum devoid of matter. Mixed into vast diffuse clouds of atomic gas are minute grains of silicate and carbonate materials known as ‘dust’, alongside complex molecules deep in the cold hearts of nebulae. We shall look at
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Crime in Dickens’ London: ‘This ain’t the shop for justice’ - Dr Tony Williams
From his childhood acquaintance with London, when he feared he ...
From his childhood acquaintance with London, when he feared he might become ‘a little robber or a little vagabond’, Charles Dickens was fascinated by crime. His novels all include criminal activity of some kind as he investigates criminal psychology and t
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Innovation in the Social Sciences - Professor Sir Roderick Floud
Innovation is seen as the key to economic growth. But ...
Innovation is seen as the key to economic growth. But is this true of innovation in services, which now employ 75% of us, as well as in manufacturing industry? This lecture explores innovation in the “knowledge industries” through the development of the s
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Illuminated Psalter Manuscripts - Dr Sally Dormer
Psalters containing the 150 Psalms were immensely popular medieval manuscripts, ...
Psalters containing the 150 Psalms were immensely popular medieval manuscripts, used by a wide array of patrons for liturgical, scholastic and devotional purposes. This lecture explores how the Psalms inspired a rich tradition of literal, historical and i
