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The Price of Fish: Making sense of the way the world really works
Professor Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris present a lecture on issues related to 'real' (as opposed to 'transactional') commerce: the complex ways in…
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From Trocadero to Troxy: A Tradition Returns - John Abson and Richard Hills
Eighty years ago, three enterprising sons of Russian immigrants realised their ambition, to build a palace of dreams on the Old Kent Road. Three year…
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Keep It Short: J.S. Bach's Magnificat - Professor Christopher Hogwood
The art of being succinct is not one always associated with the works of Bach; in his compact setting of the Magnificat he employs economy and symbol…
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The Roman Denarius and the Euro: A precedent for monetary union? - Dr Andrew Burnett FBA CBE
A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes been used as an historical precedent for the European Union, and specifically the way that the integ…
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Profiling a Killer - Professor Glenn D Wilson
How do the real Crackers operate and how successful are they? Intuitive approaches to criminal profiling capture the imagination but actuarial metho…
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Decolonization: The End of Empire? - Professor Richard J. Evans
European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918, continued to expand after the First World War, reaching their greatest extent in th…
2 days, 6 hours ago
Weighing the Universe
The cosmic microwave background is the luminous echo of the primordial explosion, the Big Bang — literally the oldest light in the Universe. Exquisit…
2 days, 7 hours ago
Cryptocurrencies: Protocols for Consensus
This event, jointly hosted with the British Society for the History of Mathematics, will focus upon the relationship between mathematics and money, f…
2 days, 7 hours ago
Musical Openings
The hammerblow introduction to Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony and the iconic four-note opening motif of the 5th Symphony, the unresolved start of Wagn…
2 days, 8 hours ago
Is Populism a Threat to Democracy?
THE 2020 ANNUAL PROVOST'S LECTURE
Uploaded 11-06-26
What is the history of populism? Has it ever been a force for good?
In this lecture, Sir Richard E…
2 days, 9 hours ago