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The Annual Sir Thomas Gresham Lecture 2026

This is the Annual Sir Thomas Gresham Lecture.

Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham

The Death of the Roman Republic?

Did the Roman republic die with Julius Caesar? With Cicero...

A broken classical column with its top section leaning against the base, surrounded by rubble on a white background

The Morrigan: The Nightmare Queen

The Morrigan functions today largely as the supreme dark Celtic...

A woman in dark attire with a feathered collar holds a skull, while a large black bird flies above her

Cicero In and On Political Crises

An enthusiast of the Roman mixed constitution, Cicero was elected...

Statue of Cicero

The Shape of Knots: From DNA to Shoestrings and Solar Flares

Knots are ubiquitous in the world around us, appearing as...

A close-up of a thick, white, coiled rope with a blue stripe

Plato to Polybius on Constitutional Change

Plato in the fourth century BCE penned an indelible sequence...

Roman marble relief depicting figures in Classical antiquity

Dionysus: Lord of Misrule

The ancient Greeks themselves were never comfortable about their god...

Illustration of a reclining classical figure with draped cloth and a lyre

Music, Death and Afterlife

This lecture explores ways in which we live with the...

A detailed still life painting titled "Memento Mori" by Carstian Luyckx

The Universe’s 100th Birthday: Galactic Fireworks and Little Red Dots

100 years ago this year, Edwin Hubble published the first...

Interacting spiral galaxies Arp 273, with the larger galaxy tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by its companion

The Death of Athenian Democracy?

The death of Athenian democracy is as difficult to date...

A weathered bronze Greek Corinthian helmet resting in sand