Catch up: Whither the Public Lecture? Watch via: https://gres.hm/public-lecture Professor Martin Elliott, Provost of Gresham College, explores the history of the public lecture. He asks, in an era supposedly characterised by shorter attention spans, and greater competition for that attention, can the public lecture survive? #lecture #publicspeaking #oracy #learning #rhetoric #greshamcollege | Gresham College

How did Anglicanism develop as a form of Christianity? England’s Anglican Reformation #GreshamLecture The English Reformation gave rise to the global Christian communion called Anglicanism: but neither immediately nor directly. This highly distinctive form of Christianity – ritualistic but nondogmatic, self-consciously moderate but staunchly nationalistic – has long been closely tied to English national identity. This lecture asks how it came to emerge over the sixteenth and seventeenth centurie

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

Ahead of his second Gresham lecture next week, catch up with Prof Chris Linttot's first: Island Universes: Discovering Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way This lecture covers the Great Debate of the early twentieth century as new telescopes and new ways of observing the cosmos put our Milky Way in its place; and looks at how subsequent observations helped us understand how galaxies like our own formed and evolved. University of Oxford Physics Magdalene College, Cambridge Royal Astronomical Society #ga

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