12 October 2022
Turning history into fiction: what’s allowed and what’s forbidden
Speaker Adèle Geras aka Hope Adams
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19 October 2022
Agriculture – A risky business: resilience, food security and risk
Speaker William Dick
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26 October 2022
The impact of the Islamic World on venetian architecture
Speaker Professor Deborah Howard
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2 November 2022
Where do novelists get their ideas from?
Speaker Bobbie Darbyshire
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9 November 2022
Richard III – The king under the car park
Speaker Mathew Morris, MA ACIfA
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16 November 2022
The future of orchestras and classical music
Speaker Stephen Maddock OBE
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23 November 2022
The Darwins & Cambridge: The evolution of a family
Speaker Em Prof Philip Stott
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30 November 2022
Water – Sewage – Microbes
Speaker Natalie Lamb
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7 December 2022
Should we aim to live forever?
Speaker Stephen Cave
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14 December 2022
The eighteenth-Century advent of the egalitarian handshake
Speaker Prof Penelope Corfield
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18 January 2023
City of Refuge: Evacuation of London Colleges to Cambridge in WWII
Speaker Professor Tony Watts
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25 January 2023
The dilemma: Cantralised or decentralised energy?
Speaker Professor Bartlomiej (Bartek) Glowacki
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1 February 2023
The Blue Commons – Rescuing the economy of the sea
Speaker Professor Guy Standing
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8 February 2023
Should the UK return artefacts that were looted in colonial times? The case of the Benin Bronzes
Speaker Professor Veronique Mottier
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15 February 2023
The Dickens Code: uncovering the mysteries of Charles Dickens’s shorthand
Speaker Professor Hugo Bowles and Dr Claire Wood
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22 February 2023
Agatha, Poirot and Me: how I became the Queen of Crime’s sidekick
Speaker Sophie Hannah
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1 March 2023
The discovery and characterisation of the first galaxies in the Universe
Speaker Dr Sandro Taccella
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8 March 2023
The Armenians of Jerusalem : a personal history
Speaker Sarah Mntzaganian
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15 March 2023
Policing and Legitimacy: exploring policing in independent Ukraine
Speaker Dr Anna Markovska
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19 April 2023
John Singer Sargent: recent and future exhibitions explored
Speaker Richard Ormond
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26 April 2023
Charles Kingsley: Victorian Saint?
Speaker Dr Gareth Atkins
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3 May 2023
Duty, Determination and Danger in the lives of four adventurous Eighteenth Century wives
Speaker Professor Elaine Chalus
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10 May 2023
What kind of story is Climate Change?
Speaker Professor Mike Hulme
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17 May 2023
A close look at the first results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Speaker Dr Carolin Crawford
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