The Rule of Law and its Enemies: The Landscape of Law The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture, recorded at Gresham...
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer This lecture will explore the 'celebrification' of contemporary popular culture...
Britain in the 20th Century: Responses to Decline, 1895-1914 It was during these years that British statesmen first came...
Richard Hakluyt: London’s role in navigation and history Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) is famous for his Principal Navigations, intended...
The Origin of the Constellations Who invented the constellations? The constellations that we use to...
The Age of Dictatorship: Europe 1918-1989 - Hitler The second lecture in the series turned to Germany, where...
At war with the French: Louis XIV and Napoleon Both Louis XIV in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries...
The old Constitution under strain The years since 1997 have seen very radical constitutional reforms...