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Buying, Selling and Owning Guitars in Elizabethan England
What kind of people owned a guitar in the London of Elizabeth I and where did they go shopping for one? It is possible to assemble a remarkably full …
8 years, 3 months ago
Maths Goes Into Space
Space science is one of HM Government's 'eight great technologies'. In this lecture I will explain the mathematics behind satellites, …
8 years, 3 months ago
Organic Food: Rooted in Lies?
Organic food production is environmentally benign, better for animal welfare, has human health benefits and tastes better - or so say its proponents.…
8 years, 3 months ago
Mobilising Savings for Investment
We will carefully outline the categories of savings held by households and link that to the operation of financial intermediaries in providing loanab…
8 years, 3 months ago
Lenin and the Russian Revolution
Why did Lenin's Bolsheviks take power in October 1917? The earlier (February) revolution and the hopes it raised, the complex realities of power…
8 years, 3 months ago
English Landscape: Samuel Palmer and the Pastoral
Samuel Palmer, in his Shoreham period in the 1820s and 30s, seized on the long tradition of classical pastoral landscapes, and wrested it into an Eng…
8 years, 3 months ago
The 2016 US President Election - One Year On
One year ago, Donald Trump won the American presidency - the first president in modern times to be elected without any previous political experience.…
8 years, 3 months ago
Martin Luther and his Crusade Against the Pope
When Luther was close to death he reportedly exclaimed: 'Living I was your plague O Pope, Dead I will be your Death.'
This lecture marks th…
8 years, 3 months ago
English Landscape: Constable and Clare
Constable's Stour landscapes of the Regency period, during and just after the War with France, and his publication English Landscape Scenery, ch…
8 years, 3 months ago
Jane Austen: Patriotism and Prejudice
Professor Todd will be discussing patriotism in Austen's time and her particular attitude to it; her sense of what Englishness is, materially an…
8 years, 3 months ago