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Professor Poliakoff is a Research Professor in Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. He also presents the popular YouTube channel 'The Periodic Table of Videos'.
Dr Brittain-Catlin is a Reader in Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Kent. He specialises in early nineteenth-century and early twentieth English architecture.
Professor Sharpe is Professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University. He specialises in the literature, art, and culture of the modern city, particularly New York.
Elizabeth Crawford is an independent researcher and author of a number of books on the women’s suffrage movement – including ‘The Women’s Suffrage Movement: a reference guide’, ‘Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary’, and ‘Art and Suffrage: a biographical dicti
Professor Service is an Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He is a Professor of Russian History and an accomplished author in Russian history from the late nineteenth-century to the present day.
Professor Beattie is an academic psychologist, writer and broadcaster. He is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and was awarded the Spearman Medal by the BPS for 'published psychological research of outstanding merit'.
Professor Jones is Schrecker-Barbour Fellow and Associate Professor of Russian Literature at University College Oxford. She is a Fellow at University College. She is also a Lecturer at Brasenose College, Oxford.
Today's event
Today's event, The Gresham Festival of Musical Ideas, will not be livestreamed. Recordings of all lectures will be published soon!