Risk, Equality and Opportunity: The Roles for Government Finance Adrift and barely floating amidst financial crises, governments claim that...
Philanthropy Old: Setting the Boundary Posts Philanthropy has always been a feature of public life from...
Leading at the Top: Power and Politics - An Introduction Professor Michael Mainelli introduces the symposium and outlines what he...
Is the growth in the emerging economies additional or are we growing more slowly? Speakers look at the limits to world economic growth from...
Human Livelihoods Depend on Wild Flowers: Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank explained In this talk Dr Robin Probert explains why human livelihoods...
To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Development in the Western World since 1700 BOOK LAUNCH At the end of the eighteenth century, the...
Culture and Resistance: Indigenous Responses to a Globalised World This lecture looks at the place occupied by indigenous cultures...