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How to Survive a Massacre in Europe’s Wars of Religion

Europe’s Wars of Religion were fought against entire populations, and were punctuated by events remembered as atrocities: such as the siege of Leiden in 1573-4 or, most notoriously, the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacres in France in 1572.

Prohibition: A Battle in America’s Last Culture War

The lecture will show how Prohibition animated combatants on both sides, generating two Americas that were barely comprehensible to each other, and how the truce declared during depression and war would not last.

The City of London – Culture, Creativity and the Culture Mile

The 2020 Annual Lord Mayor’s Gresham event will explore the value of culture for The City of London. The City of London is not only a great place to do business but also has a rich and vibrant cultural offer making it a great place to live, learn, work and visit.

How the English Learned to Hate Catholics

Medieval England was proudly Catholic and ostentatiously loyal to Rome. But from the late sixteenth century until recent times – and even now – anti-Catholic prejudice has been a cornerstone of English and British identity.

Everyone Expects the Spanish Inquisition: The Making of Spain’s 'Black Legend'

This lecture will survey this ‘black legend’ and ask what made it so enduring – and why some parts of the story, such as the Inquisition’s genocidal campaign against Spanish Jews, received so much less attention than others.

Digital Listening: The Future of Music in the Age of Digital Fragmentation

What’s the future of listening? What will happen to the ways we give attention to music in the future?

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

Moral Figures: Jesus vs Hitler

"Before the mid 20th Century Jesus Christ was the most...

The Meaning, Value and Sanctity of Human Life

Can our approach enable the Biblical material to assist contemporary medical debates?

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