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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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The Making of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - Dr Sally Dormer
Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most beautiful artefacts to ...
Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most beautiful artefacts to survive from the Middle Ages. Their production involved transforming animal skins into parchment; copying texts; painting and gilding minatures; and binding folios between boards, a proce
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The BBC: Defending the public interest - Baroness Deech
The BBC is an important source of value and truth ...
The BBC is an important source of value and truth not just within the UK but around the world through the World Service. How, then, should the Corporation be regulated if it is to maintain its position as a fair and independent source of news and entertai
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Britain in the 20th Century: Thatcherism, 1979-1990 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Margaret Thatcher’s governments encouraged the spread of ownership in Britain ...
Margaret Thatcher’s governments encouraged the spread of ownership in Britain and 'Thatcherism' seemed for a time to be in accordance with the trends of social change. So why did it come to an end? What was the cost? How should we judge her leadership of
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Mathematics and Sport: Final Score - Professor John D Barrow
From league tables to game-set-match, an investigation of the mathematics ...
From league tables to game-set-match, an investigation of the mathematics behind scoring systems in sport.
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Malaria: Twenty-first Century Threat - Professor Frank Cox
Malaria afflicts some 250 million people of whom over a ...
Malaria afflicts some 250 million people of whom over a million, mostly children, die each year. But in 1955 the World Health Organization announced a plan to eradicate it. What went wrong? Will Malaria ever be beaten? What is being done about it?
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Brain Reconstruction - Professor Jack Price
Is brain reconstruction going to be the next biomedical breakthrough, ...
Is brain reconstruction going to be the next biomedical breakthrough, or is it just a biological impossibility? Professor Jack Price details the latest advances in this field of neuroscience, as well as covering the conceptual and regulatory obstacles tha
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The New Normal: Rebalancing Our Priorities - Professor Ken Costa
It is time for the banking and financial sectors to ...
It is time for the banking and financial sectors to stop apologising and start changing. But how? Professor Costs outlines three key themes for change needed in order to estable a "New Normal" for how we operate in the commerical and financial world: a re
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The Roman Denarius and the Euro: A precedent for monetary union? - Dr Andrew Burnett
A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes ...
A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes been used as an historical precedent for the European Union, and specifically the way that the integration of the Roman monetary system has been seen as a (sometimes justifying) precedent for modern Europea
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Is there a God-shaped hole in contemporary art? - Dr Jonathan Koestlé-Cate
Should contemporary church commissions meet criteria of accessibility, aesthetic quality ...
Should contemporary church commissions meet criteria of accessibility, aesthetic quality and clear Christian symbolism? Should non-believers be commissioned to produce Christian art?
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The 'Desublimation' of Modern Art: A Theological Task? - Professor Ben Quash
What is the place of 'the sublime' in modern art ...
What is the place of 'the sublime' in modern art and popular culture? What challenge does this leave for contemporary Christian art?
