Britain in the 20th Century: The Character of the Post-war Period The post war years, by contrast with the first 45...
Is it really the case that Economic success is negatively correlated with Sporting success? The lecture will look at the links between sporting success...
Defeating Digital Viruses: Lessons From the Pandemic This talk will explore the potential for harnessing the public...
Saving the Twentieth Century How far can experimental buildings of the 1960s and '70s be altered for new uses? Should there be new rules for a new era of conservation?
Long Commerce: Transactions across time Taking off from a 2007 Gresham lecture "Stealing the Silver...
The Failure of the First Protestant Missionaries This lecture will introduce this series about early missionary projects in the 16th-18th centuries. Why they mostly failed; and why they still matter.
Queer Presences and Absences: Citizenship, Community, Diversity - or Death This lecture considers moments of US and UK sexual citizenship...
Arithmetic by Computer and by Human Long multiplication, long division and logarithms are, for many, dim-remembered...