Ancient Reading in an Historical Context This lecture will explore the varying ways in which people...
God's Good Order and the Artist's Patterns For centuries of western history, the beauty of art was...
The Meaning of Everything: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words...
Music and Architecture: Confronting the Boundaries between Space and Sound The architect/mathematician turned composer, Iannis Xenakis, was Gresham Professor of...
Ritual Protection Marks and Witchcraft at Knole, Kent An historic building survey at Knole, Kent enabled a very...
A Haberdashery Shop on London Bridge: Journal of a Georgian Gentleman The fascinating story of eighteenth century haberdasher who recorded what...
The Universities - Over regulation A century ago, British universities started to receive government funds. ...
London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...
A Cosmic Perspective: Four Centuries of Expanding Horizons The 'curious and ingenious' men who met at Gresham College...