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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.

Charles I: The Court at War

During the Civil War Charles I’s court, denied access to its usual country residences, was forced to set itself up in a series of makeshift locations. The most important of these was Oxford which Charles converted into a large and well-organised courtly campus.

Experimental Gardens from Francis Bacon to Today

This lecture will begin with Bacon’s imagined garden, then consider the long-term promise of the experimental or scientific garden, which would eventually lead to today’s biotechnologies.

The 30 Years' War (1618-48) and the Second Defenestration of Prague

Professor Wilson will examine the causes, conduct and consequences of the Thirty Years’ War, Europe’s most destructive conflict prior to the two 20th-century world wars.

The 2016 US President Election - One Year On

The US has a long history of populism, but no populist has won the nomination of a major party since William Jennings Bryan in 1896. In the past, populist insurgencies have heralded party realignment. Will the election of Trump do the same?

"Numberless Diverse Acts of Courage and Belief": The Struggle Against Slavery in History and in the Present

This lecture on slavery will present an overview of the challenges and an outline of what is needed to prevail, by one of the world’s leading activists and thinkers on the subject, Dr Aidan McQuade, Director of Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest international human rights organisatio

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Prohibition: A Battle in America’s Last Culture War

Charles I: The Court at War

Experimental Gardens from Francis Bacon to Today

The 30 Years' War (1618-48) and the Second Defenestration of Prague

The 2016 US President Election - One Year On

"Numberless Diverse Acts of Courage and Belief": The Struggle Against Slavery in History and in the Present

Are conspiracy theories spread by the Internet?

The Iraq War, 2003

Sir Christopher Wren: Buildings, Place and Genius

The Secret of Sir Christopher Wren's Success

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