Gresham College Free Public Lectures

The 19th Century saw the development of a mathematics profession with people earning their living from teaching, examining and researching and with the mathematical centre of gravity moving from France to Germany.

A series of lectures to look at the personality and some of the work of a number of famous mathematicians and then discuss more recent developments and applications.

Epidemic diseases have been as important as war in their devastating effects on human society through the ages. This series of lectures looks at them in their relation to society, the economy, culture and ideas, and the state.

This series of lectures will examine the ways in which fashion was used as a way of defining, celebrating and criticising modern life in the nineteenth century.

This is a series of free public lectures investigating the portrayal of Christian themes in art from the first Christians through to the modern day.

In his first series of Gresham lectures, Sir Jonathan Bate explores the many ways in which Shakespeare's imagination was shaped by the stories, ideas, and figures of ancient Greece and Rome.

Reading is something many of us take for granted once we've gained basic literacy, but when we teach it to someone else, the act of reading becomes a more mysterious process.

The English Middle Ages saw the construction of some of the world's greatest buildings, structures that still shape our towns, cities and countryside and mould our national identity. This tradition continued into modern times and beyond.

An investigation of the heart, its defects and its treatments; a journey that will lead us from the medical aspects to the complex mixture of politics, ethics, economics and science.

Somewhere in the centre of a space that contains economics, history and politics there is a need for the state to control the value of money.