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A series of lectures hosted by Gresham College as a part of the City of London Festival held annually in June and July.

In this series

Graphic red circle with SG 50 inside

44:36

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Singapore at 50: Oil and Water - Inextricably Mixed

Lord Oxburgh

Mon, 13 Jul 2015

Environment

Politics

The Enraged Musician, engraving by William Hogarth which depicts a violinist driven to distraction by street traffic and musicians outside his window

39:24

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The History of Street Performance: ‘Music by handle’ and the Silencing of Street Musicians in the Metropolis

Dr Paul Simpson

Thu, 09 Jul 2015

History

Modern

Music

Performance

Cartoon of children singing in a choir

54:28

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The Benefits of Singing in a Choir

Professor Graham Welch

Wed, 08 Jul 2015

Music

Children sitting on a pile of rubble in London 1940s

55:59

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Replanning London after the Second World War

Professor Peter Larkham

Tue, 07 Jul 2015

History

London

Modern

Photograph of the dome of St Paul's cathedral

58:49

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Sir Christopher Wren and the Rebuilding of the City Churches after the Great Fire of London

Dr Anthony Geraghty

Tue, 30 Jun 2015

Art

History

London

Stuart

Commonwealth flag, golden globe with spiked surround on blue background

50:19

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The Queen's Commonwealth: Monarchy and the End of Empire, 1945-2011

Professor Phillip Murphy

Tue, 08 Jul 2014

World

History

UK

Modern

Government

Monarchy

Black and white image of men in bowler hats

40:11

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The History of the Bowler Hat

Timothy Long

Wed, 02 Jul 2014

Art

History

Literature

London

Visual art

Choristers with open music books

57:31

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The Science of Singing

Professor David Howard

Mon, 30 Jun 2014

Medicine

Music

UK and South Korean flag at Olympic Opening ceremony

42:53

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Britain's Relations with Korea: A Personal View

Sir Thomas Harris KBE CMG

Fri, 27 Jun 2014

Business

Asia

Government

Politics

UK

Truman signing North Atlantic Treaty in Oval Office with colleagues around him

53:04

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Treaty-Making and International Relations

Professor Jack Spence OBE

Mon, 08 Jul 2013

Government

Politics

Marble depiction of Orpheus pleading with Pluto and Proserpina to restore Eurydice to him

58:02

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Stravinsky, Britten and the Lure of the Classical Past

Professor Jonathan Cross

Tue, 02 Jul 2013

Dance

Music

Opera

Painting by Gustav Klimt showing a swirling Tree of Life, a standing female figure, and an embracing couple

47:03

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The Tree of Life

Dr Richard Chartres

Mon, 01 Jul 2013

Biology

Environment

Religion

Society

Charles I

59:22

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London-Derry Connections: The early years, 1613-1640

Dr Ian Archer

Wed, 26 Jun 2013

Colonial

Europe

History

London

Black and white soldier of Wilfred Owen in uniform

49:42

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Poetry of War

Gillian Clarke

Tue, 25 Jun 2013

Art

Literature

Conflict

red-leaved tree in park

53:44

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The Plane Forest: Does the City have the Right Trees?

Hugh Johnson OBE

Mon, 24 Jun 2013

Environment

Plants

Science

Geography

The colourful 1539 Carta Marina, map of the Nordic countries

48:40

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Trading Places and Travelling - Musical Legacies of the Hanseatic League

Dr Geoffrey Webber

Thu, 12 Jul 2012

Europe

History

Music

montage of different flowers

36:13

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Human Livelihoods Depend on Wild Flowers: Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank explained

Dr Robin Probert

Tue, 10 Jul 2012

Biology

Medicine

Science

Still of James Ellis in Z Cars

44:55

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The Lost World of 1962

Dominic Sandbrook

Thu, 05 Jul 2012

History

Modern

Andrew Motion

50:03

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Resetting the Human Compass: The Use and Value of the Arts

Sir Andrew Motion

Wed, 04 Jul 2012

Art

Literature

Franck Hector Berlioz

58:19

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The Grande Messe des Morts and the Absence of God

David Cairns

Tue, 26 Jun 2012

Dance

Music

Opera

Remote Brazilian tribe in forest clearing photographed from the air

55:17

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Culture and Resistance: Indigenous Responses to a Globalised World

Michael Walling

Wed, 29 Jun 2011

Environment

Culture

Economics

Rights

Politics

World

Black and white photograph of Percy Aldridge Grainger

58:39

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Percy Grainger: Australia's greatest composer?

Professor Malcolm Gillies

Mon, 11 Jul 2011

Music

Oceania

History

Tumutumu- a Māori musical instrument made from a whale's jaw bone and wood

59:19

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Voices of the Land: Nga Reo o te Whenua

Dr Richard Nunns

Tue, 12 Jul 2011

Music

Performance

Oceania

Culture

Race

map

1:04:05

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Emerging Markets and Climate Change

Dr Cameron Hepburn

Wed, 06 Jul 2011

Business

Ethics

Science

Bird singing in a pine tree

53:56

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Birdsong and Music

David Mathews

Fri, 01 Jul 2011

Music

42:51

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A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey

Dr Richard Chartres

Thu, 08 Jul 2010

Environment

Religion

chicken factory

42:23

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Portugal and England, 1386-2010

Professor Thomas Earle

Fri, 02 Jul 2010

Europe

History

UK

27:51

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The Poetry of Bees

David Harsent

Thu, 01 Jul 2010

Art

Literature

slide

40:28

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Sir Hans Sloane: 350 years of preserving history

Dr Robert Huxley

Tue, 29 Jun 2010

Biology

Science

musical manuscript

50:32

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Adventures of Portuguese 'Ancient Music' in Eighteenth-Century London

Dr Owen Rees

Fri, 25 Jun 2010

History

London

Music

field mouse

52:18

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The Songs of Summer

Chris Watson

Tue, 22 Jun 2010

Environment

Music

Performance

Science

Painting of Robert Burns.jpg

56:22

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Burns the European

Iain Burnside

Mon, 06 Jul 2009

Art

Literature

Music

T. S. Eliot

44:52

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Out of the Wasteland: Hope for a greener world

Dr Richard Chartres

Tue, 23 Jun 2009

Environment

Religion

Image of speaker

1:00:34

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Musical Morals and Moral Music: The artist and the environment

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Tue, 30 Jun 2009

Music

Painting of Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse

1:01:57

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Metamorphoses – The Terrible Beauty of Change

John Harle

Mon, 22 Jun 2009

Business

Music

Performance

Sign by riverbank with London's Lost Rivers written on it

59:37

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London’s Lost Rivers: The Hackney Brook and other North West Passages

Iain Sinclair

Mon, 22 Jun 2009

History

London

Geography

Culture

Environment

Angel of the North statue

53:51

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The Idea of the North

Professor Peter Davidson

Fri, 19 Jun 2009

Art

Literature

Rhetoric

57:33

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Mahler’s Heavenly Retreats

Keith James Clarke

Wed, 09 Jul 2008

Music

Bahadur Shah Zafar’s oil portrait

1:09:25

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The Last Mughal

William Dalrymple

Mon, 07 Jul 2008

Art

Colonial

History

Literature

Coart of Arms of the East India Company

53:41

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This Imperious Company - The East India Company and the Modern Multinational

Nick Robins

Fri, 27 Jun 2008

Colonial

Europe

History

row of houses

1:00:54

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The Question of Beauty in Architecture

Alain de Botton

Mon, 23 Jun 2008

History

Philosophy

Black andwhite picture of Goethe

1:11:58

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Goethe the Musician and his influence on German Song

Professor Richard Stokes

Fri, 20 Jun 2008

Art

Literature

Music

Theatre