Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Florence Nightingale and her Crimean War Statistics: Lessons for hospital safety, public administration and nursing Professor McDonald will discusses the history and the myth surrounding...
Should we take our leaders as seriously as they take themselves? Political leaders invest time and energy in cultivating their public...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
What is Happening to Christianity? Insights from Africa Christianity’s centre of gravity has shifted to the Global South. What do these changes mean for our understanding of the world’s largest religion?
Green Immunity – How Do Plants Fight Infection? Most of us rarely think about plant immunity. But, like...
The Communist Party of Great Britain and Middle Class Recruits Professor Morgan, of the University of Manchester, examines the wider...
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...
More Means Better: Fifty years of Higher Education Kingsley Amis famously argued that, in higher education, "More Means...