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The 30th Anniversary of The Children Act 1989: Is It Still Fit For Purpose?
The Children Act 1989 embodied a change in philosophy by making the child's welfare the courts 'paramount' concern, moving away from t…
7 years, 1 month ago
Architecture, Images and Image-Making Under The Stuarts
The Stuart age saw a much more systematic approach to the elite patronage of art and architecture. Collectors and connoisseurs were more aware of the…
7 years, 1 month ago
50 Years of Lunar Exploration
The Moon is undoubtedly the next frontier for humanity. The international space agencies are lining up to pursue lunar projects and even develop luna…
7 years, 1 month ago
Evolution since Sir Thomas Gresham: How Changes Over The Past Five Centuries Have Moulded Evolution
In celebrating 500 years since the birth of Sir Thomas Gresham, Professor Jones will examine how changes since the sixteenth century have affected th…
7 years, 1 month ago
How to be a Shakespearean Atheist
Villainous atheists were, like witches, stock figures of the European imagination in the Renaissance. But when Shakespeare and his contemporaries put…
7 years, 1 month ago
Reforming Corporate Governance
The UK is considered a world leader in corporate governance, but governance failures are blamed for the loss of trust in business.
This talk will dis…
7 years, 1 month ago
Musorgsky's Boris Godunov
Musorgsky's opera Boris Godunov (1872) is set in the 'Time of Troubles', using Pushkin's incisive verse tragedy on the chaotic pe…
7 years, 1 month ago
Infections and the Nerves
Certain infections have a particular impact on the peripheral nerves as part of their normal disease process. Some infectious effects are predominate…
7 years, 1 month ago
Exploring the Hidden Face of our Dark Deep Ocean Planet
We sometimes hear that 'we know more about Mars than the deep ocean', but is that true? Exploring the deep ocean is a recent enterprise, ma…
7 years, 1 month ago
The Search for Meaning on the Web: The Semantic Web and Managing a Lifetime's Information
Berners-Lee's World Wide Web (WWW) was not his original aim, which was closer to what we now call the Semantic or Data Web (SW): documents and i…
7 years, 1 month ago