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Antibiotic Resistance: Calling on Citizens to Help Tackle the Problem
Antibiotic resistance has emerged as an issue that threatens public health around the world. Even simple operations may no longer be possible due to …
7 years, 5 months ago
Gothic London: Recreating the Ancient City on Screen
The earliest London-made films showed the Victorian city doing everyday business, before its fictional screen image became increasingly shadowy and s…
7 years, 5 months ago
Painting, Patronage and Politics under the Tudors
Tudor England was a dangerous place for the wealthy and powerful. The cultural ambitions of the elite open a window into contemporary attitudes.
A le…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Origins of Romanticism
"What is 'Romanticism'?
Jonathan Bate goes in search of what Isaiah Berlin described as 'the greatest single shift in the conscio…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Gray's Inn Reading - The Rule of Law: Good for the Economy?
It has become the conventional wisdom that the rule of law is a necessary ingredient of economic progress.
Along with an independent judiciary, indiv…
7 years, 8 months ago
Terrorism in Historical Perspective
THE PROVOST'S LECTURE
Terrorism has become one of the most destructive and worrying aspects of life in 21st-century European cities. Seemingly r…
7 years, 8 months ago
Climate Change: A Defining Challenge for the 21st Century
THE SIR THOMAS GRESHAM ANNUAL LECTURE 2018
The scientific evidence for climate change will be examined, describing how simulations of the Earth'…
7 years, 8 months ago
The Conversion of T.S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" was the voice of a disillusioned generation and reflected a world in disarray. Then in 1928 Eliot announ…
7 years, 8 months ago
Computers and the Future
The invention of the computer in 1948 has changed our world radically but we are only in the early years of this industrial revolution.
What disrupti…
7 years, 8 months ago
Remembering London: The Story of the Faith Communities of London and their Prospects
Bishop Richard Chartres will present a survey in five acts of the history of London's faith communities, with a word about their prospects in th…
7 years, 8 months ago