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.

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.

Belinda Jack is Fellow and Tutor in French at Christ Church, University of Oxford. She features regularly in the press and media thanks to the popularity and insight of her published work.

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.

Professor Raymond Flood is Gresham's Geometry Professor and a Maths Professor at Kellogg College, Oxford. In his series of lectures, Professor Flood describes and explains fundamental elements of mathematics.

The series looks at the Victorians not just in Britain but in Europe and the wider world.

Christopher Hogwood, world-renowned conductor, keyboard player, musicologist, writer, editor and broadcaster, is Professor of Music at Gresham College.

Empire has been the defining world experience of the modern era. Already in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, European powers put their stamp on the Americas.

Professor Bogdanor's series of lectures will examine British political parties - their ideologies, successes and failures.