Galileo’s Journey to the Underworld: The Case for Interdisciplinary Thinking In 1588, the young Galileo delivered some lectures that were...
Lawgivers in Modern Revolutions How have lawgivers featured in modern revolutions? This lecture considers...
From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers For many modern thinkers, the lawgiver has been important as...
Banned Books and Freedom of Expression The right to free expression is severely threatened in many...
Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek The Hebrew lawgiver Moses was compared to ancient Greek lawgivers...
Why Writing Women Back into History Matters Rediscovering remarkable historical figures such as the Birka Warrior Woman...
Whither the Public Lecture? Gresham College has been delivering public lectures since 1597 through...
Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
Humans as Prey: the Spectre of the Alpha Predator European dragons occupied a very specific pyschological relationship with humanity...
The Stories We Make Up & The Stories That Make Us In a sense, we are all storytellers, from the conversations...