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The End of Planetary Atmospheres
Planet Venus is a hellish place and seemingly hostile to life, although recent measurements claimed the detection of biogenic signatures. Less than a…
3 years, 6 months ago
War and Peace in Europe from Hitler to Putin
How can we understand the war in Ukraine in the light of European history over the past century? Is Putin a '20th-century Hitler' as some have called…
3 years, 7 months ago
Gods of Prehistoric Britain
Britain has one of the richest of all pagan heritages in Europe, defined as the textual and material evidence for its pre-Christian religions. The is…
3 years, 7 months ago
Who owns the Internet?
The emergence of the global Internet challenged the notion that states have sovereignty over what their citizens see and hear, and what they can say.…
3 years, 7 months ago
Long Covid
No one has been left untouched by COVID-19. Many individuals have been left with the physical and mental health consequences of the virus- now known …
3 years, 7 months ago
Progresses: Royal Courts on the Move in Tudor and Stuart England
Most summers Tudor and Stuart monarchs took their court on an extended progress round the home counties staying at their own palaces and the houses o…
3 years, 7 months ago
What Makes a Good Judge?
Everyone agrees that good judges are essential for the maintenance of the Rule of Law in a democratic society. But what makes a judge a good judge an…
3 years, 10 months ago
Inigo Jones and the Architecture of Necessity
Inigo Jones is the architect best-known for the Banqueting House on Whitehall, one of the icons of British state architecture. He is less well known …
3 years, 10 months ago
The Journey from Black-Hole Singularities to a Cyclic Cosmology
The “singularity theorems” of the 1960s demonstrated that large enough celestial bodies, or collections of such bodies, would, collapse gravitational…
3 years, 10 months ago
How to Finance a Company
How should companies raise money?
This lecture will look at both debt (bank loans and bonds) and equity (shares given to other founders, or sold on t…
3 years, 10 months ago