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| Saturday, 30th January |
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| Adèle Emm, author of Tracing your Female Ancestors, tells us about the women and their struggle for female emancipation. |
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| Gary Lachman will give a book launch talk, part of a series of pocket introductions providing accessible essays on key Swedenborgian themes. |
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| Sunday, 31st January |
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| Join Sam Lee and Viktor Wynd for a nightcap, let them tuck you into bed, tell you fairy tales, sing ballads and a sweet lullaby on zoom |
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| Monday, 1st February |
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| This lecture will chart the fascinating history and science of neutrinos, from their discovery in 1956 to the role they played in understanding solar physics. |
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| The Rt. Hon The Lord Mayor William Russell, President of Gresham College, will be convening a panel on a subject of topical interest. |
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| Museum curator Henrietta Lockhart explores the lives of ten women living at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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| Tuesday, 2nd February |
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| This talk concentrates on the great empress’s funeral and the role played by London as her body passed through on its way to lie beside Prince Albert in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore. |
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| This talk explores how the gay underground came into contact with the typically establishmentarian field of classics. |
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| This talk will illustrate the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left France in the late seventeenth century. |
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| Wednesday, 3rd February |
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| Dr. Anna Henschel shares how while there are still miles to go before robots become a regular feature within our social spaces, rapid progress in social robotics research, aided by the social sciences, is helping to move us closer to this reality. |
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| Professor Jim Crawley presents his research journey that has uncovered the intricate ways in which blood clotting is regulated. |
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| This lecture asks how a religious dispute came to rewrite the English constitution and traces that upheaval’s legacies – some plain, some hidden – for England and its neighbours down to the present. |
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| Ethan Pollock, professor of History and Slavic studies at Brown, reveals the 1000-year story of the Russian bathhouse. |
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| This talk will explore the origins of movement, and how the landscape we see at Chiswick today came to be. |
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| Thursday, 4th February |
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| Join ICE Hereford and Worcester for a historical talk, focusing on the life and works of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, the father of Isambard Kingdom. |
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| This talks hopes to explore how the speed of the railways affected passengers' eating habits and how they felt about it. |
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| Is there is a level playing field between participants at inquests? What does ‘equality of arms’ mean? Is such a concept appropriate when looking at inquests? Are inquiries better? |
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| Friday, 5th February |
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| Join Professor Kim A Wagner online as he uses the story of a grisly war-trophy to explore the history of British rule in India and the Uprising of 1857. |
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| Explore the 18th Century Garden through this lecture to find the ‘gaiety in nature’ that Walpole describes at Strawberry Hill and that is still present today. |
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| Saturday, 6th February |
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