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1295: The Year of the Galleys

This lecture is about an extraordinary set of English shipbuilding...

Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture

This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...

The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins

In June 1780 the most destructive urban riots in English...

Quakers Living Adventurously: The Library and Archives of the Society of Friends

Since the seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of...

Roy Jenkins, Europe and the Civilised Society

Roy Jenkins was Home Secretary from 1965 to 1967 and...

The Postmodern Detective: Contemporary London Crime Fiction

The urban detective has traditionally been a figure supremely able...

Gresham's Law in Economics: Background to the Crisis

Sir Thomas Gresham said that "bad money drives out good"...

The Lost Hospitals of London: Leprosaria

Today, any mention of the medieval leper conjures up alarming...

From Conquest to Control

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European...

Empire in the Pre-Industrial World

The first lecture in the series looks at the initial...

Today's event

Today's event, The Gresham Festival of Musical Ideas, will not be livestreamed. Recordings of all lectures will be published soon!