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Archers Assemble: Creating The Powell-Pressburger Partnership

This lecture explores how the partnership worked during the 1940s, drawing in collaborators from many backgrounds who also excelled, and benefiting from the extraordinary conditions of wartime Britain.

Byron and the Age of Sensation

Jonathan Bate will explore the life and work of the original celebrity poet - Lord Byron.

Toothpaste, Custard and Chocolate: Mathematics Gets Messy

This talk looks at mathematical modelling of real, complex fluids in flow situations – some with serious commercial applications, and some just for fun.

Creativity: Can Computers Cut It?

We will look at technology that enables creativity (not always of a good kind) and the prospects for a machine to create works of art.

Jesus, Hitler and the Abolition of God

This series has argued that the origins of modern secularism lie in the age of the Renaissance. This last lecture will track that legacy down to the present.

Leonardo's Salvator Mundi: Scholarship, Science and Skulduggery

The newly discovered Salvator by Leonardo, the world’s most costly picture, is one of his most notable creations, in which he used his ‘science of art’ to transform a stock subject into a profound expression of the ineffability of the divine. We will look at the remarkable story of its discove

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Archers Assemble: Creating The Powell-Pressburger Partnership

Byron and the Age of Sensation

Toothpaste, Custard and Chocolate: Mathematics Gets Messy

Creativity: Can Computers Cut It?

Jesus, Hitler and the Abolition of God

Leonardo's Salvator Mundi: Scholarship, Science and Skulduggery

500 Years of Mathematics: Are We Living in a New Golden Age?

London Belongs to Us: Street-Life and New Wave British Cinema of the 1960s

Crown, Country and the Struggle for Cultural Supremacy

How Will We Learn Maths in the Future?

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