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- Lockdown Playlists - London · 65 videos
- Astronomy & Cosmology · 56 videos
- Lockdown Playlists - Outer Space · 56 videos
- Lockdown Playlists - Musical Composition · 53 videos
- Business · 53 videos
- Vernon Bogdanor's Gresham Lectures · 50 videos
- Lockdown Playlists - True Crime · 39 videos
- Environment · 30 videos
- The Mind & Human violence · 29 videos
- Mathematics - BSHM Lectures · 28 videos
- Lockdown Playlists - Royalty · 28 videos
- Series - The Lord Mayor's Event · 27 videos
- Extracts - Gresham Lectures, 2011-2013 · 26 videos
- Chris Whitty's Gresham Lectures · 25 videos
- Astronomy - Carolin Crawford · 24 videos
- Lockdown Playlists - Maths with John D Barrow · 24 videos
- City of London Festival Lectures · 22 videos
- Psychology - Professor Glenn D. Wilson · 21 videos
- Music - Christopher Hogwood · 18 videos
- Medical Science - William Ayliffe · 18 videos
- Medical Science - The Heart of the Matter · 18 videos
- Astronomy - The Biggest Questions in the Universe · 18 videos
- Maths and the Making of the Modern and Future World · 18 videos
- Conference - Debussy: Text and Ideas Part 1 and 2 · 17 videos
- Alec Ryrie's Gresham Lectures · 17 videos
- The Natural World · 16 videos
- IT - Living in a Cyber Enabled World · 16 videos
- Music - Classical Guitar Performances · 14 videos
- Gresham Lectures 2026/27 · 14 videos
- Architecture - How England was Built · 13 videos
- Religion - Christian Themes in Art · 13 videos
- Economics - Douglas McWilliams · 13 videos
- Political History - Britain in the Twentieth Century · 12 videos
- Astronomy - Ian Morison · 12 videos
- Religion - Religion and Values in a Liberal State · 12 videos
- Mathematics - Great Mathematicians, Great Mathematics · 12 videos
- Law - International Criminal Courts · 12 videos
- Epidemics · 12 videos
- Lecture - Codebreaking in Everyday Life · 11 videos
- Lecture - The Fall of the Third Reich · 11 videos
- Biology - Steve Jones · 11 videos
- Series - London Mathematical Society Lectures · 10 videos
- Series - The Royal Historical Society · 9 videos
- The Powers of the Novel · 9 videos
- Conference - Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality · 9 videos
- Lecture - Metamorphoses - Sustainability, Gresham College & Britten · 8 videos
- Lecture - The Victorians: Empire and Race · 8 videos
- Lecture - Does God Believe in Human Rights? · 8 videos
46:02On the Nature of Time According to Modern Physics - Jim Al-Khalili
215K viewsJim Al-Khalili explains what modern physics says about time: relativity, the block universe, entropy and the arrow of time.
1:00:44Carbon: Our Flexible Friend that Built the Natural World - Helen Czerski
30.5K viewsHelen Czerski on carbon: its chemistry, the carbon cycle and how it built the living world.
50:48Cosmology’s Mad Idea: Inflation & the Creation of Our Universe - Chris Lintott
78.1K viewsChris Lintott explains cosmic inflation: what problems it solves, the evidence for it and what remains uncertain.
44:23How Hard is too Hard? An Introduction to Complexity - Colva Roney-Dougal
8.82K viewsColva Roney-Dougal introduces computational complexity: what makes problems hard, P vs NP and why it matters.
45:07The Death of the Roman Republic? - Melissa Lane
18.5K viewsMelissa Lane examines how and why the Roman Republic fell, and what ancient writers thought about it.
53:19China’s Economic Prospects on the Cusp - George Magnus
A 53-minute video from Gresham College: “China’s Economic Prospects on the Cusp - George Magnus”.
57:22House, Shop and Wardrobe in London's Merchant Community - Simon Thurley CBE
A 57-minute video from Gresham College: “House, Shop and Wardrobe in London's Merchant Community - Simon Thurley CBE”.
56:16How to Make Financial Decisions
A 56-minute video from Gresham College: “How to Make Financial Decisions”.
50:20Limitarianism and Capitalism - Ingrid Robeyns
A 50-minute video from Gresham College: “Limitarianism and Capitalism - Ingrid Robeyns”.
58:22London Merchants and Their Residences - Simon Thurley CBE
A 58-minute video from Gresham College: “London Merchants and Their Residences - Simon Thurley CBE”.
47:02The Gresham Ship: An Armed Elizabethan Merchantman - Dr Gustav Milne
A 47-minute video from Gresham College: “The Gresham Ship: An Armed Elizabethan Merchantman - Dr Gustav Milne”.
43:45The Maths of Music (and the Music of Maths) - Milton Mermikides and Sarah Hart
A 44-minute video from Gresham College: “The Maths of Music (and the Music of Maths) - Milton Mermikides and Sarah Hart”.
43:48Where Is China Heading under Xi Jinping? - Steve Tsang
A 44-minute video from Gresham College: “Where Is China Heading under Xi Jinping? - Steve Tsang”.
45:59Life, Death and Judgement in the Art and Times of Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516) - Sophie Oosterwijk
18.7K viewsHow Hieronymus Bosch's paintings reflect late-medieval ideas about sin, death and judgement.
45:53Mithras: Master of Mystery - Ronald Hutton
63.7K viewsRonald Hutton on Mithras and what the archaeological evidence can and cannot tell us about his cult.
47:43Plato to Polybius on Constitutional Change - Melissa Lane
9.3K viewsMelissa Lane traces ancient theories of how constitutions change and decay, from Plato's Republic to Polybius's cycle of regimes.
52:52The Dictionary City: Londoners and the Oxford English Dictionary - Sarah Ogilvie
37.1K viewsSarah Ogilvie on the Londoners who contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary and how the dictionary was built.
45:19The History and Legacy of Protestant Christianity - Alec Ryrie
41.4K viewsAlec Ryrie surveys the history and legacy of Protestant Christianity.
43:45The Maths of Music (and the Music of Maths) - Milton Mermikides and Sarah Hart
23.4K viewsMilton Mermikides and Sarah Hart on the mathematical structures inside music and the musicality of mathematics.
48:46The Shape of Gravity: Why On Earth Are Planets Spherical? - Alain Goriely
24.3K viewsAlain Goriely uses mathematics to explain why planets and stars are round and when bodies are not.
49:36Cello - In Search of a Voice - Kate Kennedy
11.1K viewsKate Kennedy on the history of the cello and how it found its voice as a solo instrument, with musical examples.
59:50Climate Risk and Insurance - Raghavendra Rau
33.1K viewsRaghavendra Rau explains how insurers price climate risk and what happens when risks become uninsurable.
49:08Constable's "The Cornfield": A Bicentenary Harvesting - Malcolm Andrews
15.9K viewsMalcolm Andrews on Constable's The Cornfield at its bicentenary: how it was painted, what it shows and why it became an icon.
47:02Death Investigation: What Do Coroners Do? - Peter Thornton
29.9K viewsPeter Thornton explains what coroners do in England: inquests, causes of death and the law around them.
45:50Shakespearean England and Views of the Irish Language - Mícheál Ó Mainnín
64.7K viewsMícheál Ó Mainnín on how the Irish language was viewed in Shakespeare's England and what that reveals about colonial attitudes.
54:42Sum Stories: Equations and their Origins - Robin Wilson
26.1K viewsRobin Wilson tells the stories behind famous equations and how they were discovered.
50:10That's Not Funny: The Ethics of Satire - Judith Hawley
33.2K viewsJudith Hawley examines the ethics of satire from Swift and Hogarth to today: what satire is for and where its limits lie.
4:11"A More Truly Christian Model of Slavery" - Professor Alec Ryrie
70.8K viewsA 4-minute video from Gresham College's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:38"A Sorcerer of Words": Tributes to T.S. Eliot - Professor Belinda Jack
688 viewsA 5-minute video from Gresham College's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:19"An Entirely New Form of Christian Slavery" - Professor Alec Ryrie
10.1K viewsA 4-minute video from Gresham College's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:21"But Sir , I Do Not Like Foreigners": Selwyn Lloyd - Professor Vernon Bogdanor
997 viewsA 5-minute video from Gresham College's catalogue; the title names its topic.
50:11"Knee deep in the big muddy": Escalation of Commitment - Professor Helga Drummond
3.76K viewsA 50-minute video from Gresham College's catalogue; the title names its topic.
30:07"Made in America": Christian Fundamentalism - Dr John A Dick
36.2K viewsA 30-minute video from Gresham College's catalogue; the title names its topic.
4:32"Nobody Important Lives in Southwark": Mapping Roman London - Michael Marshall
1.76K viewsA 5-minute video from Gresham College's catalogue; the title names its topic.
3:34"Prostitutes & Software Developers": A Short History of the Italian Black Economy
3.36K viewsA 4-minute video from Gresham College's catalogue; the title names its topic.
3:11"Pub Talk": My Proudest Achievement - Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA
1.41K viewsA 3-minute video from Gresham College's catalogue; the title names its topic.