Gresham College Video
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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Birdsong and Music - David Matthews
A reflection on the relations between music and the natural ...
A reflection on the relations between music and the natural world and how a composer can be brought closer to one through the other and vice versa. From both a European and Australian perspective.
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The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Development in the Western World since 1700 - Professor Bernard Harris
The causes and consequences of changes in human height, weight ...
The causes and consequences of changes in human height, weight and longevity within human recent history for health.
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How tall can the Eurpopean Convention on Human Rights grow? - The Rt Hon Baroness Hale
Is the European Convention on Human Rights an uncontrollable beast, ...
Is the European Convention on Human Rights an uncontrollable beast, or does it have its own natural limits? Need we prune it, or be wary of it?
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Culture and Resistance: Indigenous Responses to a Globalised World - Michael Walling
Globalisation is a threat not only to other economies, but ...
Globalisation is a threat not only to other economies, but also to other cultures. This lecture takes a look at how indigenous cultures are under threat, what they stand to lose, and how they are putting up a fight - not least in the arts.
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The Politics of Health Reform from a Medieval Perspective - Professor William Ayliffe
Is the NHS medieval? Would this be an insulting claim, ...
Is the NHS medieval? Would this be an insulting claim, to modern hospitals or those of the Middle Ages? Professor William Ayliffe considers modern health reform from the perspective of Tudor medical practice. He provides an overview of some of London's mo
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The Form and Function of Medieval Hospitals - Professor Carole Rawcliffe
An overview of the hospital as it existed in the ...
An overview of the hospital as it existed in the Middle Ages, with an outlining the place of women and religion in the medical practice of the time and a dispelling the myth that the Tudors lived in unhygienic squalor.
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Medical and Surgical Therapeutics: Scientific Advances in the Tudor Era - Professor Allan Chapman
A detailed overview of the developments and innovations in Tudor ...
A detailed overview of the developments and innovations in Tudor medicine and surgery, and the legacy that they have established.
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Tudor Health Reform: An Introduction - Professor Tim Connell
A short introduction to a conference on Tudor Health, discussing ...
A short introduction to a conference on Tudor Health, discussing childbirth, medicine in print, disease and accidents in the Tudor era.
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Language Documentation and Revitalisation: Where are we now? - Professor Peter Austin
Professor Peter Austin outlines a number of projects aimed at ...
Professor Peter Austin outlines a number of projects aimed at documenting the world's endangered languages.
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Why should we protect endangered languages? - Dr Nicholas Ostler
An argument for the preservation of the world's endangered languages, ...
An argument for the preservation of the world's endangered languages, with consideration of historical examples of threatened languages that have been wiped out (like Gaulish) and those that have been rescued from extinction (such as Basque).
