Orature, Oratory and Getting the Message Heard The most valued aspect of our entire culture in England...
The Rule of Law and its Enemies: The Landscape of Law The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture, recorded at Gresham...
Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
Charismatic Leadership: Nature, Causes, and Consequences How did politicians as diverse as Thatcher, Charles de Gaulle...
Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend While Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens are now...
Envy of Kings: The Guildhall of London and the Power of the Medieval Corporation The government of the City of London is older than...
Plato's Cave: Thinking about Climate Change In The Republic, Plato explores the predicament of the Cave...
Experts in politics: Lessons from Socrates and Aristotle Socrates sought to test the expertise of everyone around him...
How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...