Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
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The Man Who Invented Christmas: Film Adaptations of Dickens' A Christmas Carol
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Finding Purpose in Your Career
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Gardens of Empire: The Role of Kew and Colonial Botanic Gardens
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100 Years of Women in Law
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Physics: Its Birth in Greek Ionia
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Breast, Uterine and Ovarian Cancers
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Taming the Trolls of Social Media
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George Eliot and Relationships
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A History of the Eye
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How the English Learned to Hate Catholics
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The End of Matter?
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Sir Thomas Gresham and the Tudor Court
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Keyhole Surgery Pioneers
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Unlocking the Health Benefits of Nature
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Maths and Voting
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Powell and Pressburger: The Matter of Britain
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The Origins of the Elements
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Charles I: The Court at War
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Dams, Radiators and The Shard: The Legacy of English Gardening
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AI Weapons, War and Ethics
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Weighing the Universe
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A History of Hair
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Infection, Immunity and Cancer
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The Ballets Russes: Courting the Exotic
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Slavery and the City of London
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Freedom Song: The Fisk Jubilee Singers' Story
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A Global History of the Eclipse of 29 May 1919
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Mathematical Practice and the 18th-Century British Voyages of Scientific Explora...
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Privateer and Mathematician: The Voyages of Edward Wright
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Frozen in Time?
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Biometrics: How Unique are You?
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The Mathematical World of C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
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Black Tudors: Three Untold Stories
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Building Sustainable Communities: A New Era for Twinning
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Slavery, Memory and Reparations
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Organ Transplants and Human Rights Abuses in China
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Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891) And the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis
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1667 and The Royal Society: A Manifesto for the Future
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The Maths of Future Computing
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Experimental Gardens from Francis Bacon to Today
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Have Women Achieved Professional Equality? 100 years since the Sex Disqualificat...
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Time Management in the Digital Age
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Faster than Light?
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Human Traffic: Race and Post-War Migration Policy
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How to Avert a Climate Catastrophe
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Everyone Expects the Spanish Inquisition: The Making of Spain's 'Black Legend'
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Exporting Russia: Diaghilev's Beginnings
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Archers Assemble: Creating The Powell-Pressburger Partnership
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Musical Openings
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James I: The Court at Play
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