Summaries of Gresham College Videos 📚

The Universities: Under Regulation - Baroness Ruth Deech

The Guitar in the Age of Charles I - Professor Christopher Page FBA

Is a Mathematician a Robot? - Professor Chris Budd OBE

Jane Austen: Patriotism and Prejudice - Professor Janet Todd OBE

The UK Budget 2013: Analysis by Gresham Professor Douglas McWilliams

Christopher Wren’s Medical Discoveries: the ‘Architect of Human Anatomy’

BSHM 2017, Just Imagine! The Tale of i - Professor Raymond Flood

Women in Science Fiction

How Protestant Missionaries Encountered Slavery

Living with Mental Health

Tudor Ambition: Houses of the Boleyn Family

Asthma and Chronic Airways Disease - Professor Chris Whitty

Stories about Mathematicians Killed in World War I

Innovators and Entrepreneurs in a Wellbeing Economy

Cosmic Vision: Unravelling Rainbows

BBC Radio in the LP Era (1948-1982)

What Makes a Good Judge?

The Guitar at the Restoration Court - Professor Christopher Page FBA

Human Rights: Whether in Europe or out? - Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC

Faster than Light?

Purposeful Business

Resetting the Human Compass: The Use and Value of the Arts - Sir Andrew Motion

Have Women Achieved Professional Equality in the Legal Profession?

The Visual Politics of Refugeehood - Nishat Awan

The Labour Party - Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE

The City of London and the Magna Carta - Anthony Arlidge QC

The Explosion of Modernism - Rt Revd Lord Richard Harries

The Heart of the Matter - An Introduction by Professor Martin Elliott

China: New Nation, New Art, 1911-1932 - Professor Craig Clunas

The Digital University and Other Mythical Creatures

Is Society Ready for Driverless Cars? - Martyn Thomas

Lungs, Gut, and Skin: Biological Interfaces with the Outside World

The End of Massive Stars

Pilgrimages, Pandemics and the Past - Tom Holland

How Spontaneous Gestures Connect to Thinking - Professor Geoffrey Beattie

The Boyle Lectures: Science and Religion in Dialogue - The Revd Dr John Polkinghorne

The Mathematical Life of Sir Christopher Wren

Buying, Selling and Owning Guitars in Elizabethan England - Professor Christopher Page

Uncovering Sexual Abuse - Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice

Brexit and the Future of Britain with Vernon Bogdanor

The External Financing Position - Professor Jagjit Chadha

Resonances of Baudelaire in Debussy's Piano Music - Roy Howat

Britain and the EU: In or Out - One Year On - Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE

English Architecture: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 - Professor Simon Thurley

The Five Catastrophes That Made London - Professor Dr Simon Thurley

The Fall of the Third Reich - 5 - The failure of Operation Valkyrie

The Legacy of English Gardening

Inventions That Changed The World: GPS

Fertility and Feminism (Part 3) - Older Mothers - Baroness Ruth Deech, at Gresham College

Mental and Physical Wellness

The Gospel of Apartheid - Professor Alec Ryrie

An Even Shorter History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Acting on Evidence: How Medical Research has informed Historical Drama - Dr John Powell

Machine Learning and the 4th Industrial Revolution

The Victorian 'Grand Tour' - Professor Richard J Evans, Gresham College history lecture

Sylvia Plath's 'Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper': A Critical Analysis by Professor Belinda Jack

Mathematics, Measurement and Money - Professor Norman Biggs

What Does It Mean For Israel To Be A Jewish State?

Why we see what we do - Professor Wiliam Ayliffe

Conflict Resolution: Seeking Disagreement Success - Simon Keyes

London’s Air: The 70th Anniversary of the Great London Smog

Hildegard of Bingen: "O Ignis Spiritus" performed by Emily van Evera

Employment and Unemployment - Professor Jagjit Chadha

Can You Do Mathematics In A Crowd? - Professor Chris Budd OBE

Armageddon and the Cyberghost: Cyber-attacks as acts of war - Alexander Carter-Silk

The Pursuit of Happiness - Professor Glenn D Wilson

Is Reality Limited to What Science Can Uncover? - Professor Alister McGrath

How to Protect Yourself From Demons - James Wright

From Wonder to Understanding: Beginning a Journey - Professor Alister McGrath

Karl Marx - 200 Years On - Professor Gareth Stedman Jones

The City's Great Financial Scandals: Introduction to the conference - Professor Michael Mainelli

Half a Century of Heart Transplantation - Professor Martin Elliott

The Expanding Universe - Professor Joseph Silk

Mathematical Practice and 18th-Century British Voyages of Scientific Exploration

Euler's Equation: 'The Most Beautiful Theorem in Mathematics' - Professor Robin Wilson

The Gresham Ship: An Armed Elizabethan Merchantman - Dr Gustav Milne

The Girl Guides, Downton Abbey and MI5: Fascist Collaborators - Professor Clive Bloom

Should We Trust Computers - Professor Martyn Thomas CBE

Debussy, the 'Song Triptych', and fin-de-siècle Visual Culture - Dr David Code

The Gordon Riots of 1780: London in Flames, a Nation in Ruins - Professor Ian Haywood

Cybersecurity for Humans

Martin Luther and his Crusade Against The Pope - Professor Lyndal Roper

How Genetic Adaptation Helped Humans Colonise the Globe

Option Pricing Theory Explained - Raghavendra Rau

A History of Hair

Identity and Identification - Professor Jane Caplan

Is assisted suicide a cure for suffering? - Lord Richard Harries and Professor Alister McGrath

The Guitar in Tudor London - Professor Christopher Page

The Changing Shape of UK Trade - Professor Douglas McWilliams

Are Averages Typical? - Professor Raymond Flood

The Victorian Beard - by Professor Richard J Evans

S01 Ep.6 - Lottery-Winning Maths, Sarah Hart

When Galaxies Collide... - Professor Carolin Crawford

Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa - Madhu Krishnan

Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Poetic Revolution

Trust in Markets? - Professor the Lord Plant of Highfield

The Transient Universe - Professor Carolin Crawford

Cosmic Vision: Witnessing Fireworks

The Lost Cities and Amazing Heritage of Kenya

What Medicine Can Learn from Savile Row

Insect Vector-Borne Diseases

Money, Monetary Policy and Central Banks - An Introduction by Professor Jagjit Chadha

Human Rights in the UK and the Commonwealth Caribbean

Aneurin Bevan and the Socialist Ideal - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

Elementary Particles and Their Interactions - Professor Joseph Silk FRS

The History of Local Anaesthesia - Dr William Harrop-Griffiths

Schubert's Fantasy in F Minor, D. 940 - Christopher Hogwood, Florian Mitrea and Alexandra Vaduva

Karl Pearson's Gresham Lectures on Geometry (1890-1894) - Dr Eileen Magnello

Childhood Malnutrition: Exporting Violence or Happiness?

From Printed Page to Performance - Christopher Hogwood, Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg

Continuity and Development in Architecture - Stephen Hodder

Is Humanity Naturally Good? Richard Dawkins's Selfish Gene - Professor Alister McGrath

The Spanish Inquisition: Spain's "Black Legend"

London Fog and the Impressionists - Dr Christine Corton

Sir Andrew Motion on Alice Oswald's 'Wedding'

X-Rays & Economy in Music - Professor Christopher Hogwood

Financial Innovation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Panel Discussion

"An Entirely New Form of Christian Slavery" - Professor Alec Ryrie

User Error: Why it's not your fault - Professor Tony Mann

Roman Slavery in London: "Fortunata, The Slave of a Slave" - Michael Marshall

Introduction to the conference, 'Debussy: Text and Ideas'

Nature, Nurture or Neither? The View from the Genes - Professor Steve Jones

Fourier's Series - Professor Raymond Flood

The Work of Médecins Sans Frontières - Paul McMaster

What Kind of Pheromones might Humans Have? - Dr Tristram Wyatt

The Theatre of Dionysus

Does The State Really Care When It Kills You?

Dealing with Sex Abuse: How Does the Family Court Assess Risk? - Professor Jo Delahunty QC

Random Chance in Evolution - Robin May

Justice for All - Professor Geoffrey Nice QC

The King in the Car Park: The Discovery and Identification of Richard III - Professor Kevin Schürer

Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 - Christopher Clark

Freezing Eggs and Delaying Fertility: Law, Ethics and Society

Thomas More's Magnificent Utopia - Dr Richard Serjeantson

Architecture and the Edwardian Era - Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Möbius and his Band - Professor Raymond Flood

Natural Prosperity and the Wellbeing Economy

Royal Restoration: Estates of the Duke of Monmouth

The Liberal Party and the Liberal Democrats - Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE

Reducing Inequalities in Child Health: What can we do that's positive? - Professor Danny Dorling

Mass Burials from St Mary Spital, London - Don Walker

Conflict Resolution: Introduction - Professor Tim Connell

The Myth of the Lone Heroic Surgeon

The Ballets Russes: Playing with the Past

Russian Piano Masterpieces: Stravinsky

America and "Crimes Against Humanity" - Sir Geoffrey Nice QC

The English Claim on the French Throne - Dr Helen Castor

Sex Wars - Professor Glenn D. Wilson

Introduction to 'Taking and Giving: Roles in Philanthropy Old and New' - Professor Tim Connell

The Psychology of the Stock Market

War Games at the Field of the Cloth of Gold

How Long is a Piece of Performance Management? - Anthony Hene

Charles Chaplin: Bridging Three Centuries - David Robinson

AI and Education: The Reality and the Potential

Middle Class Communists Seminar (Part Three): Discussion - Denis Healey, Peter Hennessy and Panel

Investing in Nature

Professor Tony Mann: Beyond the lectures

ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Not Just Tired All The Time! - Dr Alistair Miller

Nationalist Parties - Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA

Faces in Court 1893-1918: Drawings of William Hartley from New Scotland Yard's Crime Museum -

Are Science and Faith at War? - Professor Alister McGrath

The 30th Anniversary of The Children Act 1989 - Is it still fit for purpose?

Networks: The Internet and Beyond

Faith in Women - Reverend Lucy Winkett

Will there be a shortage of spending power? - Professor Douglas McWilliams

How to make Western Economies more Competitive - Professor Douglas McWilliams

The Politics of Fabric and Fashion in Africa: 1960-Today

The Shipman Inquiry: Was it worth it? [Part 3] by Lady Justice Janet Smith

Sir Christopher Wren: Architect & Courtier

Arthur Sullivan's Songwriting Technique - David Owen Norris

Forwards and Backwards: Architecture in inter-war England - Dr Simon Thurley

The Birth of Modern Theatreland: Covent Garden and the Two Theatres Royal - Professor Simon Thurley

S02 Ep.5 - Why Is There Only One Species Of Human?, Robin May

Philanthropy Then, Philanthropy Now - Julia Unwin (Chief Executive, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

What Would Jesus Do? Christian Culture Wars in the Modern West - Professor Alec Ryrie

The Mathematics of the Karate Chop - Professor John D. Barrow

Is One Individual's Radicalism Another's Right to Free Speech - Professor Jo Delahunty QC

The Limits of our Knowledge

Music in Context: In Prison Camps - Professor Christopher Hogwood

Landscape with St George and the Dragon - Professor Simon Thurley CBE

Harnessing the Power of Chant - Professor Christopher Page

Professor Carolyn Roberts' Wider Academia and Career

Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life As A Children's Heart Surgeon - Professor Martin Elliott

Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace - Professor Raymond Flood

Is Man Just Another Animal? - Professor Steve Jones

Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

St. Paul's Cathedral at 300: The recent refurbishment project - Martin Stancliffe

Modern Christian Art: Distinctive Individual Visions - The Rt Revd Lord Harries

Louis XIV: Versailles, Europe and the Arts

Dumbing down or sharpening up? The Church's abandonment of the King James Version

Decolonization: The End of Empire? - Professor Richard J. Evans

Thomas Becket and London

An Introduction to Paradoxes - Professor Tony Mann

Credit Cards - Breaking the Code: The maths behind bank numbers and the Luhn test

Metamorphoses - Changes - Gresham College Sustainability Talk & Benjamin Britten Performance

English Architecture: Coming of Age, 1408-1530 - Professor Simon Thurley

Sleep and Dreams - Professor Glenn D Wilson

Does other life exist in the Universe? (Part 2)

The Pieta in Art - Lord Richard Harries

The Long Decline of Winston Churchill - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

England's Tudor Reformation

Genetically Starving: DNA and Appetite - Professor Steve Jones

Oxford’s Savilian Professors of Geometry: 400 Years On

The End of Slobodan Milošević - Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC

Social Media, COVID & Ukraine: Fighting Disinformation

Benford's Very Strange Law - Professor John D. Barrow

Critical Thinking

Poetry and Immortality: John Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale' - Professor Belinda Jack

Slavery and the City of London

From Soap Boxes to Tea Sets: How the Suffragette Movement got into People's Hearts and Homes

Climate Tipping Points in Oceans, Ice, Forests - Myles Allen

The Secrets of Darwin's Greenhouse

Text Mining: How Do Computers Understand Language?

The Internet of Things - Professor Martyn Thomas CBE

The Sound of Saturn: The Winds of Titan, from the Huygens Probe

Creativity in Art, Creativity in Science - By Professor Arthur I Miller

The Founder of the Feast? Dickens and Christmas - Professor Michael Slater MBE

The Incredible Sine Wave and its Uses

Discovering Australia: The legend & reality of Matthew Flinders - David Hill

Can the EU Survive Globalisation - Professor Douglas McWilliams

19th-Century Eclipse Expeditions - Deborah Kent

Fertility and Feminism (Part 1) - Introduction - Baroness Ruth Deech, at Gresham College

It from Bit: The Science of Information

Who's to Blame for Britain's Floods? - Professor Carolyn Roberts

Bill Bryson: Benjamin Franklin [A Gresham College lecture]

The Origins of Christmas Carols - Jeremy Summerly

Shostakovich on Trial: from Lady Macbeth to the Fifth Symphony

The Shipman Inquiry: Was it worth it? [Part 2] by Lady Justice Janet Smith

The Dominant Seventh Chord

Get to know Professor Joseph Silk

Maths and Sport: How Fast Can Usain Bolt Run? - Professor John D. Barrow

Sexism in the Workplace: Angry Dads as Feminist Allies - Dame Barbara Stocking DBE

Einstein and the Photo-Electric Effect - Professor Raymond Flood

The Historic Collections of St Paul's Cathedral - Simon Carter

The Beginning and the End: Images of the Universe - Dr Valerie Shrimplin

"Nobody Important Lives in Southwark": Mapping Roman London - Michael Marshall

The Indian Mutiny and other shocks to the British Empire - Professor Richard J Evans

The Privatisation of Law: Has a World Court been created? - The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith QC

The Rule of Law: Good for the Economy? - Professor Sir Ross Cranston FBA

Modern Art: The Art Of Modern Life? - Professor George Pattison

Formal and Informal Empire in the 19th Century - Professor Richard Evans

How Pagan Was Medieval Britain?

England‘s Anglican Reformation

The Ageing Eye - Professor William Ayliffe

English Architecture and the First World War - Professor Simon Thurley

Exoplanets and how to find them - Professor Carolin Crawford

Atomic Universe

Arthur Conan Doyle and London: "A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool" - Richard Burnip

Could Streaming Change the ‘Classic Film’ Canon?

Can We Treat Violence? - Professor Gwen Adshead

Unweaving the Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing System - Dr Dionysios S Demetis

Infections of the Abdominal Organs

Procyclicality Of Financial Regulation And How To Deal With It - Charles Goodhart

The Primordial Fireball - Professor Joseph Silk

The Trillionth Tonne of Carbon and Why It Matters For Climate Change

Is Dementia Inevitable?

The Evolution of Cancer Therapy

Perspectives on Regulation - Sarah Veale CBE

Radicalisation of children: When should the court get involved? - Professor Jo Delahunty QC

What is a Religion? Rethinking Religion and Secularism

Schooling Singers in the Cathedrals - Professor Christopher Page

The Dark Side of the Universe - Professor Joseph Silk

Replanning London after the Second World War - Peter Larkham

Making Software 'Correct by Construction' - Professor Martyn Thomas CBE

The Psychology of Money - Professor Glenn D Wilson

Murderers: Clever, but not clever enough - Professor Carolyn Roberts

British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

Regulation at Home, but not Abroad - Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC

The Iraq War, 2003 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

Theoretical and Practical Thoughts about Tempo Effects in the Conventional Period Life Table

Mobilising Savings for Investment - Professor Jagjit Chadha

Discovering the Port of Roman London - Dr Gustav Milne

A Just and Rights-Based Framework for Nature

Gresham's World: Global Traffic, Trade and the Metamorphosis of England

From Grub Street to Fleet Street: The Development of the Early English Newspaper

'Lullay, Lullay, La, Lullay': A Reading of an Authentic Medieval Carol- Professor Christopher Page

Understanding the Universe with AI

Cheats, Liars and Fornicators: The Hidden Face of Mother Nature - Professor Steve Jones

Great Mathematicians, Great Mathematics: An Introduction by Professor Raymond Flood

Metamorphoses - Niobe - Caution and Trust - Gresham College Sustainability Talk & Benjamin Britten

Leadership at a Time of Transition and Turbulence: Lecture Two - Professor Ken Costa

Atmospheric Phenomena - Professor Carolin Crawford

Reforming Corporate Governance

The Mathematics of Musical Composition

The Evolution of Vision - Professor William Ayliffe

The Nativity in Art - The Rt Hon the Lord Richard Harries

Religion and Experience: Personal Knowledge - Professor Keith Ward

Connect To Prosper – The Power Of Networks - Michael Mainelli

Measuring Up Cities: Concluding Remarks - Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli

Deep Learning: Miracle or Snake Oil?

Landscapes of Roman Britain

How the English learned to hate Catholics

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites

Trust-Busting or Trust-Building: How Can The City Earn Trust? - The Lord Mayor of the City of London

Literary London Crime: The Dark Eyes of London - Cathi Unsworth

Ghost of Scandals Past: A Short History of Financial Scandals - Edward Chancellor

Law and Lawyers - not all bad? A Life in the Law - not all good? - Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC

Mathematical Structure in Fiction

COVID-19 with Chris Whitty

The Mathematics of Bell Ringing

Schubert's Trout Quintet in A, D.667 - Christopher Hogwood & musicians from the RAM

Does the Adversarial System Serve Us Well?

Crime and Punishment: When Legal Worlds Collide - Ruth Kirby

Restraining Police Restraint

What have Henry VIII and Elizabeth I got to do with 21st Century development policy

Hans Holbein the Younger: ‘A man very excellent in taking of physionamies’ - Dr Susan Foister

Shakespeare's Stages

Postcolonial Art: African Resistance

Shakespeare's Fame - Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA CBE

Human Rights: Philosophy and History - Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC

Fertility and Feminism (Part 6) - Frozen Embryos Outside the UK - Baroness Ruth Deech

Equations That Have Changed The World

When Maths Doesn't Work: What we learn from the Prisoners' Dilemma - Professor Tony Mann

What Really Happened in Y2K? - Professor Martyn Thomas CBE

Cosmic Concepts: Perceptions, Expectations, and Discoveries

West End Theatre in China: The Mandarin Mamma Mia! - David Lightbody

Politics and the First World War - Professor Sir Richard Evans

What Medicine Can Learn from Restaurants about Care

What's happened to Childhood - Professor Hugh Cunningham

Human-led AI - Dr Marc Warner

Does Finance Benefit Society?

Introducing Hildegard of Bingen - Professor Christopher Page

Maths and Sport: Strength and Power - Professor John D. Barrow

The American Way of War in History and Politics - Professor Brian McAllister Linn

Planetary Universe

Lyme Disease "Is it safe to walk in the park?" - Professor Patricia Nuttal

Cultural Heritage and War: Welcome and Introduction - Professor Tim Connell

God's Good Order and the Artist's Patterns - Professor Ben Quash

Performing with Toy Pianos

Affairs of the Heart: An Exploration of the Symbolism of the Heart in Art - Professor Martin Elliott

Making New Plants: A History

The Equity Premium and Low Interest Rates - Professor Jagjit Chadha

Debussy and the Acte en vers - Professor Richard Langham Smith

Unwelcome Guests: Alien Animal Invaders - Professor Tim Blackburn

The Maths of Beauty and Symmetry

Polynomials and their Roots - Professor Raymond Flood

Feast or Famine: The Psychology of Eating - Professor Glenn D. Wilson

Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Mathematics of Hair - Professor Raymond E. Goldstein

No Listening, No Music: Why Listening Matters

English Architecture, 1830 to 1914: On Top Of The World - Professor Simon Thurley

Sorting out Transport in London - Professor Douglas McWilliams

Liberalism, Autonomy and Rights (Lecture 1) - Professor The Lord Plant

Music For Self-promotion: Mozart's Wind Quinitet - Professor Christopher Hogwood

Fantasia on "God Save the King" (Extract) - John Abraham Nuske

100 Essential Things You Didn't Know About Maths and the Arts - Professor John D. Barrow

Queen Victoria: Images of Power and Empire

Music in the Teaching Studio: From Bach to Bartók - Dr Stephen Rose & Florian Mitrea

A History of the Breast

The Fall of the Third Reich - 1 - Nazi terror within the military

Green Growth: The What, Why and How - Professor Paul Ekins

The History of the Bowler Hat - Timothy Long

Quakers Living Adventurously: The Library and Archives of the Society of Friends - David Blake

The Legacy of Winston Churchill - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

S01 Ep.1 - End-to-End Encryption, Victoria Baines

The First Stars - Professor Joseph Silk

Island Universes: Discovering Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way - Chris Lintott

Using Mortality to Compare the Health of Populations - Professor Jim Vaupel

Avoiding Collateral Damage: Protecting people, not just systems - Professor M. Angela Sasse

Does Philanthropy Do The Public Good?

Inigo Jones and the Architecture of Necessity

English Landscape: Constable and Clare - Professor Malcolm Andrews

Safety in the Nuclear Industry - Professor Philip Thomas

Energy and Emergy: Measuring Well-Being Among Nations - Denis White

The Victorians: Empire and Race - Professor Richard Evans

Do We Need Juries?

Criminal Law: There are alternatives

Finding Stable Matches: The Mathematics of Computer Dating - Professor Tony Mann

S02 Ep.8 - Pulsars, Microwave Ovens & The Radio Sky, Chris Lintott