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The tenor Allan Clayton studied at the Royal Academy of Music and was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2007-2009. He became an Associate Artist of Classical Opera in 2007 and has previously appeared with the company as Christ (Die Schuldigkeit des
After retiring from teaching, Peter has been able to develop his interest in First World War studies and the war poets in particular. For some years he has enjoyed guiding groups of young people on the Western Front, exploring the literary, social and
Professor Barr is Consultant General & Gastrointestinal Surgeon at the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust. He has served on the World Health Organization study group reviewing interprofessional developments worldwide and is now the coordinator for the World Interprofessional Education and Collaborative
Dr Robert Barnes studied at Harvard and Cambridge University before joining the Swiss Bank Corporation in 1994. He is currently the Managing Director, Equities responsible for Market Structures at UBS Investment Bank and Chief Executive of UBS MTF. Between 2004-2009, he was the
Novelist, biographer and poet Peter Ackroyd was born in London on 5 October 1949. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, and studied at Yale University as a Mellon Fellow, where he completed Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on
Elisabeth Kendall is Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Pembroke College, Oxford University. Her current work examines connections between militant jihadist/political movements and cultural production in Arabic.
Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke was Professor at the University of São Paulo and is now Research Associate of the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. She has worked on the cultural history of the European Enlightenment and its
Professor of Developmental Neurobiology and Head of the Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Professor Price studied at University College London and MIT, then worked at the MRC’s National Institute for Medical Research
The Revd Dr John Polkinghorne was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood. He became an ordained Anglican priest in 1982. He served as the president of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1988 until
John is a British historian. Since 2016, he has been the Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. He previously worked at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he specialised in the study of medieval religious culture.