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Snow White: Evil Witches
The Brothers Grimm's tale of Snow White has been retold dozens of times in print and the cinema over the past two centuries. A central character…
5 years, 5 months ago
Fatal Months: Auschwitz and the End of the Second World War
The 2020 Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series
2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most lethal of all Nazi c…
5 years, 5 months ago
Cosmic Vision: Witnessing Fireworks
Accounts of occasional celestial spectacular events in past centuries have provided crucial information for modern-day astrophysicists. One such exam…
5 years, 5 months ago
The Sound of Mathematics
It has been known since antiquity that there are simple "harmonic" relationships between notes that sound appealing together.
This lecture …
5 years, 5 months ago
How Are Drones Changing Warfare?
THE 2020 PETER NAILOR MEMORIAL LECTURE
Drones, or unmanned air systems, are changing the face of war in the 21st century, for combatants and civilians…
5 years, 5 months ago
What Do We Owe Society?
How has Covid-19 re-shaped our ideas about what we owe society? The lockdown has had a terrible impact on the economic prospects of young people - an…
5 years, 5 months ago
Loving Animals: Historical Reflections on Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
What is meant by ‘love’ between human and nonhuman animals? Why is sex with animals such a taboo? It is only in very recent years that some people ha…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ruling Passions: The Architecture of the Cecils
Father and son, William and Robert Cecil, not only dominated politics for much of Elizabeth I and James I reign but dominated architectural fashion. …
5 years, 6 months ago
Connected Nature
The story of the deep, biogeophysical planetary connections and how these are intensifying the effects of climate change and economic development, is…
5 years, 6 months ago
Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites
Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’) is one of the most recognisable and romanticised figures of British history. Born in Rome as a Cathol…
5 years, 6 months ago