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Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597 and continues the tradition with new lectures every week. Each lecture is an hour long and is available for download as either MP3 or MP4 files. As well as the eight Gresham Professors who deliver ...
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597 and continues the tradition with new lectures every week. Each lecture is an hour long and is available for download as either MP3 or MP4 files. As well as the eight Gresham Professors who deliver annual lecture series, we have a stream of acclaimed visiting lecturers who talk on topics as varied as history, politics, art, astronomy, religion, mathematics and much more. Visit our website for further information: www.gresham.ac.uk
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The History and Music of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Congregation in the City of London
Maurice Bitton and Chazan Eliot Alderman present the 350-year-old story ...
Maurice Bitton and Chazan Eliot Alderman present the 350-year-old story of Britain’s oldest synagogue, with musical illustrations by the synagogue choir.
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Sheep Across London Bridge - The Freedom of the City of London - Murray D Craig
The 774-year-old history of what it is to be granted ...
The 774-year-old history of what it is to be granted the Freedom of the City of London.
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The Joy of Six - Professor Christopher Hogwood CBE
A lecture and performance of string sextets by Brahms and ...
A lecture and performance of string sextets by Brahms and Strauss, investigating what makes them masterpieces. Professor Christopher Hogwood with players from the Royal Academy.
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Does Bursting One Bubble Lead to Another? - John Redwood MP
John Redwood delivers the keynote speech for the Long Finance ...
John Redwood delivers the keynote speech for the Long Finance 2011 Autumn conference, which focussed on market bubbles and their effects on efforts to ensure sustainability.
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The memoirs and legacy of Évariste Galois - Dr Peter Neumann
The story of Évariste Galois, killed in a duel at ...
The story of Évariste Galois, killed in a duel at the age of twenty, but who left behind papers that would change the face of mathematics.
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English Architecture, 1650 to 1760: The Rise of Consensus - Professor Simon Thurley
Opened up to the world once more in 1650, England ...
Opened up to the world once more in 1650, England drank in influences and ideas from abroad which were to infuse English building with widely held ideas and values.
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A voyage round Saturn, its rings and moons - Professor Carolin Crawford
Saturn is the most beautiful planet in our Solar System. ...
Saturn is the most beautiful planet in our Solar System. Famous for its bright yet ethereal rings, the gas giant has over sixty natural satellites in orbit around it – and one artificial satellite: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which provides many of the res
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The Pursuit of Happiness - Professor Glenn D Wilson
What makes us happy? Is it a genetic trait that ...
What makes us happy? Is it a genetic trait that we are stuck with, or a product of events unfolding in our living? Does it help to be rich? What can be done to overcome set-backs and and improve our sense of well being?
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What Makes A Good Regulator? - Dame Suzi Leather
Regulation is central to discussions of the banking crisis at ...
Regulation is central to discussions of the banking crisis at the moment, but what is a regulator and what should we expect of them?
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The Cold Rules for National Security: History and the Defence of the Realm - Professor The Lord Hennessy
Notions of national security past and present. How Whitehall has ...
Notions of national security past and present. How Whitehall has dealt with it. How we might do it better in the future.
