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New Thinking: Breakthroughs at Being Human 2022
The African American inventor Lewis Latimer who lived in South London and worked with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison on developing light bul…
3 years, 1 month ago
New Thinking: Net Zero Design
What does zero carbon look like if you are planning a new housing development in your town. The UK’s building stock is one of the oldest in Europe, …
3 years, 1 month ago
Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
Matthew Sweet gathers together four Proust fans from very different backgrounds - the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Jane Smiley, the psychotherapi…
3 years, 1 month ago
George Bernard Shaw
Disillusionment with war and how you sue for peace are at the heart of Shaw's drama Arms and the Man, being staged in Richmond this autumn. Whilst in…
3 years, 1 month ago
Plastic and Clay
It revolutionised domestic chores, signified modernity and has been made into packaging, textiles, electrical machinery but plastic has also contribu…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022
Do video games help explore war? An exhibition at the Imperial War Museum includes Sniper Elite 5, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and a military tr…
3 years, 2 months ago
John Knox
The Scottish theologian and preacher John Knox died on 24th November 1572, bringing to an end a life packed with drama and controversy. Matthew Sweet…
3 years, 2 months ago
Goethe, Schiller and the first Romantics
Putting I at the centre, the Ich, was the creed of philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte whilst Friedrich Schelling, saw the self as at one with the res…
3 years, 2 months ago
Alexander the Great
King of Asia and Pharoah are two of the titles taken by Alexander, ruler of Macedonia from 336 B.C. to 323 B.C. He died aged 32 having conquered a va…
3 years, 2 months ago
New Thinking: Beowulf
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough takes a look at the latest research shaping our understanding of the great Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf. She’ll be finding …
3 years, 2 months ago