Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
The Rule of Law and its Enemies: The Landscape of Law The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture, recorded at Gresham...
Charismatic Leadership: Nature, Causes, and Consequences How did politicians as diverse as Thatcher, Charles de Gaulle...
Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend While Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens are now...
The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence For centuries, scientists have tried to identify what is special...
Envy of Kings: The Guildhall of London and the Power of the Medieval Corporation The government of the City of London is older than...
Elgar and Musical Modernism: Elgar, Proust and Modernity at the fin de siecle The Institute of Musical Research, University of London and Gresham...
How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...
A New Jerusalem: Reaching for Heaven, 1130-1300 During the thirteenth century Jerusalem surplanted Rome as the inspiration...