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The Lost World of 1962 - Dominic Sandbrook
In this lecture, Dominic Sandbrook, the acclaimed historian of Sixties Britain, marks the 50th anniversary of the City of London Festival by looking …
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Star Dust - Professor Carolin Crawford
Interstellar space is not truly a vacuum devoid of matter. Mixed into vast diffuse clouds of atomic gas are minute grains of silicate and carbonate m…
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Crown, Country and the Struggle for Cultural Supremacy
The fourth lecture in this series considers Britain's unique cultural development and how the changing balance of power and wealth between the aristo…
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Empire In The Pre-Industrial World - Professor Richard J Evans
The first lecture in the series looks at the initial expansion of Europe, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
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It explores t…
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Olympism: Education - Dr Jim Parry
Education through sport is seen as the cornerstone of Olympic ideology. But should we suspicious of how this is put into practice? How, if at all, ha…
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