Gresham College Lectures Podcast
1) England's Unwanted Reformation
Most English people initially saw the Reformation as an unexpected catastrophe, wrenching their religious lives out of shape, and stripping their communities of resources they had naively believed bel...Show More
2) Data: The Past, The Present and The Future
Digital technology from the early 1990s onwards produced an exponential increase in astronomical data. Within our lifetime, the entirety of the visible universe will have been mapped out: we will have...Show More
3) Understanding the Universe with AI
Digital technology from the early 1990s onwards produced an exponential increase in astronomical data. Within our lifetime, the entirety of the visible universe will have been mapped out: we will have...Show More
4) Snow White: Evil Witches
The Brothers Grimm’s tale of Snow White has been retold dozens of times in print and the cinema over the past two centuries. A central character is the Evil Queen, Snow White’s malevolent stepmother, ...Show More
5) The Changing Geography of Ill Health
Ill health has always been concentrated in particular places; tackling these pockets of ill health is an essential role for public health. These may be driven by environmental factors, demography, dep...Show More
6) Cosmic Vision: Witnessing Fireworks
Accounts of occasional celestial spectacular events in past centuries have provided crucial information for modern-day astrophysicists. One such example is the so-called Great Eruption of Eta Carinae ...Show More
7) Fatal Months: Auschwitz and the End of the Second World War
The 2020 Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most lethal of all Nazi camps. This lecture looks back at its final mont...Show More
8) The Sound of Mathematics
It has been known since antiquity that there are simple “harmonic” relationships between notes that sound appealing together. This lecture introduces the mathematics of pitch, scales, and just tempe...Show More
9) How Are Drones Changing Society?
THE 2020 PETER NAILOR MEMORIAL LECTURE Drones, or unmanned air systems, are changing the face of war in the 21st century, for combatants and civilians. We are used to a history of the RAF based on a ...Show More
10) What Do We Owe Society?
How has Covid-19 re-shaped our ideas about what we owe society? The lockdown has had a terrible impact on the economic prospects of young people - and the elderly have suffered from high mortality in ...Show More