Our 2024-25 academic programme is now out! Over 100 free lectures across the arts & sciences; live online and in-person. Check them out: https://gres.hm/whats-on Includes exciting series' on #business, modern #paganism, #immunity, #netzero, #astronomy, #architecture, #inequality, the history of #lawmaking and beginnings of #computing. Plus inaugural series' by our new Professors: renowned human rights lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, who will be exploring The UK's Unwritten Constitution, and eminen

Our 2023-2024 academic programme is out now! Over 100 free lectures across the arts & sciences; live online and in-person. Check them out: https://gres.hm/whats-on Includes exciting series' on #business, #ethics in #AI, the #environment, #neurodiversity, #medicine, #blackhistory, #publichealth, the #maths of #games / #puzzles, #music and ethical #law. Plus, Chris Whitty on Medicine After Disasters, Ronald Hutton on the Lost Gods of Europe and Dominic Broomfield-McHugh on Twentieth Century #Divas

NEW: The @GreshamCollege programme is now out. From the sciences to the arts, humanities, business and more we have 130 lectures to indulge your love for learning. Be #InTheKnow order your new programme here: https://gres.hm/programme | Gresham College

The 2022 Royal Historical Society Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture Partition of British India: 75 Years On #GreshamLecture The partition of British India in 1947 was the world’s largest migration outside war and famine. It may feel like a distant historical event, but 75 years on its impact continues to resonate in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and in Britain. Many of those who lived through that tumultuous time migrated to Britain. In this lecture, which considers the importance and power of oral h

What do we owe to those not yet born? #GreshamLecture Climate change and the over-exploitation of resources now may mean that unless the current generation modifies its behaviour, generations ahead may either not be born or will inherit a world with severe problems. A village or even a nation state can develop rules to prevent depletion of resources so that it does not cut down forests or over-fish the oceans. But how can that be done globally when the action of one country can have a harmful ef

What do modern forensics tell us about the last York king? The Death of Richard III: CSI Meets History #GreshamLecture The skeleton of King Richard III was discovered beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. Modern forensic techniques were used to analyse the injuries to the skull, rib and pelvis. The talk will discuss what computed and micro-computed tomography reveal about the injuries that were inflicted on him, and his probable cause of death; and how well the findings align with the historical

🔔NEW: The 2022-3 @GreshamCollege programme is now out. From the sciences to the arts, humanities, business - and more - we have 120 lectures for you! https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/lecture-series-2022-23 We are welcoming five new Gresham Professors including Professor Ronald Hutton, a world-leading expert on paganism who is giving a series of lectures on Finding Britain's Lost Gods; Professor Myles Allen, the Physicist behind Net Zero, whose first year of lectures is Why Net Zero?; Professo

How can it be applied? The Incredible Sine Wave and Its Uses #GreshamLecture The beautiful sine wave turns out to have a huge number of practical applications, from the motion of springs, to waves in the sea, to sound waves, light waves and more. It is curious that the function which defines the sine wave, sin(x), comes from comparing the lengths of sides in right-angled triangles – just about the least curvy things you could imagine. How does that concept result in the lovely curve of the sine