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Time Management in the Digital Age

This talk will explain how to focus on important long-term goals but at the same time meet urgent short-term deadlines; how to use email as an effective communication tool without being overwhelmed with it; and how to outsource and automate routine tasks.

The Cockney Romantics: John Keats and his Friends

Jonathan Bate will track Keats to Hampstead and tell of the extraordinary circle of writers – opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, essayist Charles Lamb, master-critic William Hazlitt – who wrote for The London Magazine, until its gifted editor was killed in a duel with a rival critic.

Does Finance Benefit Society?

This talk will show that stock market trading may contribute to society even if does not lead to firms raising new capital.

The 'Autism Advantage' in the Workplace

Adam Feinstein will examine the strengths of many people on the autism spectrum which make them an untapped human resource in the workplace.

Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Poetic Revolution

Jonathan Bate will explain what Hazlitt meant and why Lyrical Ballads, the product of Wordsworth's intimate friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of the greatest and most influential volumes of poetry ever written.

The British Economy: Can We Build a Successful Future?

In this final lecture we will consider whether we can plot a more successful future than our recent history might suggest and what that implies for our economic and political institutions.

English Landscape: Constable and Clare

Constable's Stour landscapes of the Regency period, during and just after the War with France, and his publication English Landscape Scenery, champion local and low-key rural England.

The Productivity Puzzle

Productivity growth in the UK economy has lagged behind that of our major trading partners. We will examine a number of possible explanations ranging from the role of finance to the employment of physical and human capital.

Bach's 'Orgelbüchlein' (Little Organ Book)

A musical journey into The Orgelbüchlein - the jewel in Bach's organ music - a collection of magnificent miniatures which encompass all the musical emotions and which allow the organist to show all the colours and sonorities of the instrument at his disposal.

Sir Walter Scott's Involvement In King George IV Visiting Scotland

A question from the lecture 'Did Sir Walter Scott Invent...

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