Past lectures

Thursday 23 May 2013

Founded in 1969, Keston Institute was the "voice of the voiceless" and regularly reported on the situation of persecuted believers in...

Thursday 23 May 2013

The second in a series of three talks and performances to mark the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten.  The Badke Quartet...

Wednesday 22 May 2013

The fascinating history of gardening and horticulture in Britain.  Brent Elliott will take us through some of the library's...

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Sir Keith Joseph was the most articulate and powerful of the postwar exponents of the market economy at a time when it was distinctly...

Thursday 16 May 2013

Novelists reflected contemporary attitudes and influenced the way the City was seen both by the wider public at the time and then by...

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Mathematics is important to us all.  So it is important to enable young mathematicians, clear-thinking and passionate about their...

Tuesday 14 May 2013

In this lecture we shall concentrate on the issue of the extent to which markets at least implicitly depend on collective values such as...

Wednesday 8 May 2013

In December 2012 Sir Geoffrey Nice finished four years as Vice Chair of the Bar Standards Board, the body that regulates barristers...

Thursday 2 May 2013

An investigation into the performance style required by Corelli in his Op 5 solo violin sonatas and their arrangements as concertos by...

Wednesday 1 May 2013

London has some major disadvantages that would make any transport policy difficult. However, even given the constraints, the current...

Thursday 25 April 2013

The first in a series of three talks and performances to mark the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten.

The Badke Quartet...

Wednesday 24 April 2013

William Hartley (1862-1937) was an early Fleet Street photographer whose fame was achieved from his court room sketches from the Old...