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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Queen Victoria: Images of Power and Empire
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Diminished and Augmented Chords
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Encryption: What's the Problem?
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The Role for Financial Services in Boosting Financial Literacy and Inclusion
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Microbial Record-Breakers
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Slavery and the British Economy
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Living with Mental Health
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Do We Need Barristers?
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Anglo-Saxon Pagan Gods
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Musical Cadences
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The Ocean Physics Behind Net Zero
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Lottery-Winning Maths
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Louis XIV: Versailles, Europe and the Arts
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DeFi, Crypto, and NFTs in Business
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Medical Experts in the Family Court: Where Two Worlds Collide
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The End of Massive Stars
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Would it be Right to Make Vaccination Mandatory?
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Breast Cancer: A Cultural History
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Microbial Master-Chemists
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Coronary Heart Disease
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Paganism in Roman Britain
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How To Fight Fake News
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The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding
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London’s Air: The 70th Anniversary of the Great London Smog
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Do We Need Judges?
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The Dominant Seventh Chord
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Microbial Megastructures
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Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940–1945
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The Atmospheric Physics Behind Net Zero
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The Maths of Game Theory
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The Irish Question and the Ulster Question Then and Now
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Love, Trust & Crypto
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Why Did Europe’s Economies Diverge from Asia?
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Opposition in Russia: The Trials of Alexei Navalny
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Machine Learning and the 4th Industrial Revolution
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The End of our Sun
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Polio: A Cultural History
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What Is the Exposome and Why Does It Matter to Your Health?
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Adultery in the Novel, from Flaubert to Sally Rooney
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Partition of British India: 75 Years On
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What is the Metaverse?
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Should We Permit Voluntary Assisted Dying?
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The Politics of Fabric and Fashion in Africa 1960-Today
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Let’s Decolonise the History of Mathematical Proofs!
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How Mathematical Proofs Are Like Recipes
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The Invention of Mathematical Proof in the Renaissance
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Britain's Foreign Policy in a Fast-Changing World
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Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
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Triads, Major and Minor
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Why Net Zero?
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