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    Tough Choices: Heritage or Housing?

    The one built environment issue on which there is political consensus is an urgent need to build more houses. Housebuilding and heritage can be reconciled, but at the moment far too few local authorities know how to do it.

    Shakespeare's Astronomy

    Amongst all his astronomical allusions, Shakespeare demonstrates a deep knowledge of the night sky and its movements, including the new Copernican world-view. What can we learn of Elizabethan astronomy and Shakespeare's knowledge of it from the plays?

    Employment and Unemployment

    In the commerce second lecture, trends in the labour market will be considered, examining patterns of unemployment, employment, hours worked and real wages. Do high participation rates in the labour market reflect represent economic progress or an economy mired in low-skill low-wages jobs?

    Saving the Twentieth Century

    How far can experimental buildings of the 1960s and '70s be altered for new uses? Should there be new rules for a new era of conservation?

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