History
by Newcastle University
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Description
Newcastle University's Insights Public Lectures aim to inform, stimulate, entertain, and excite debate. The lectures cover a wide range of disciplines frequently touching on contemporary issues, particularly those that affect our daily lives and are delivered by distinguished speakers in their field. Here you can find recordings of lectures relating to history.
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Medieval aesthetics and the heroic age of Gothic invention | -- | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lest we forget: Tacitus on history writing under a tyranny | -- | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Opera, passion and tragedy in Georgian Britain: the curious history of the castrato and his wife | -- | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4 |
Imperial purple porphyry: the archaeology of the emperor's building stone | -- | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5 |
The struggle for black British literature | -- | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6 |
The Talk of the Toon: a linguistic 'time capsule' for the Google generation | -- | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7 |
Fifty years in the BBC - taking stock of the future | -- | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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8 |
Beauty and nature: why the National Trusts founding ambitions matter more than ever today | -- | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dissecting informed consent | -- | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 |
The Roman Emperor Caracalla | -- | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Blitz: attrition, endurance and experimentation | -- | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12 |
Architecture: a bridge linking Newcastle and Gateshead | -- | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13 |
Blood of the Provinces: The Roman Auxilia and creation of imperial society | -- | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14 |
William Armstrong, Magician of the North: the man who laid the foundations for Newcastle University | -- | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15 |
Our Ecological Woes A Christian Response: Mass Extinction | -- | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our Ecological Woes A Christian Response: Climate Change | -- | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17 |
Event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day | -- | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18 |
Lloyd George and the politics of coalition | -- | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19 |
Standing on the shore of the ocean of truth: natural theology, natural science and the human quest for meaning | -- | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20 |
Pride in the lion: the history of Newcastle University rugby football club | -- | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21 |
The Museum of Antiquities: a retrospective | -- | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22 |
Julius Caesar: his part in my downfall | -- | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23 |
The centenary of the Dove Marine Laboratory: 100 years of excellence in marine biology research | -- | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24 |
Local heroes (sung and unsung) of the study of earth behaviour in the last century | -- | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25 |
Thomas Hardy | -- | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26 |
Clothes and power: from Napoleon to Osama | -- | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Signs of change: the lost world of enamel advertising | -- | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28 |
Life on air: a history of Radio Four | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29 |
What is byzantium? | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30 |
From musician to world-class astronomer | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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31 |
Ruth Belville: The Greenwich Time Lady | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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32 |
Dry Store Room No. 1 - The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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33 |
England's greatest radical? Gerrard Winstanley, the digger, 1609 1676 | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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34 |
The flower hunters: botanical explorers of the nineteenth century | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35 |
Africa altered states, ordinary miracles | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36 |
Nicholas Revett and the Georgian country house | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'A bun for the elephant': encounters with Roman emperors | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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38 |
Britain and the general election 2010 | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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39 |
The Great Silence: 1918-20 Living in the Shadow of the Great War | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Art and science at the service of romance: Sir William Armstrong, Norman Shaw and the making of Cragside | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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41 |
Torture Team: abuse and accountability | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The feathered dinosaurs from china and the origin of birds | -- | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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43 |
Climbing the Bookshelves: fifty years as a woman in politics | -- | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Abstraction and wit in black heritage and modern times | -- | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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45 |
A MacDonald in the camp of sitting bull | -- | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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46 |
The development of the Great North Museum: Hancock | -- | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Muslim heritage and the cultural roots of science | -- | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 47 Episodes |
