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Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most beautiful artefacts to survive from the Middle Ages. Their production involved transforming animal skins into parchment; copying texts; painting and gilding minatures; and binding folios between boards, a process that reveals much about medieval scribal and artistic practice. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-making-of-medieva...

Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London's charitable provision for the poor in medieval and early modern times. Hand in hand with public benevolence went great public interest in the objects of charity. Until 1770, the Hospital was open (at specified times of the week) to any member of the public who wished to see inside, and 'poor boxes' were strategically placed near the entrance for donations. Bethlem was by no means the only early modern hospital to permit this level of public acc...

"The Enlightenment" has been regarded as a turning point in the intellectual history of the West. The principles of religious tolerance, optimism about human progress and a demand for rational debate are often thought to be a powerful legacy of the ideas of Locke, Newton, Voltaire and Diderot. There was however a radical Enlightenment, indebted to the materialism of Hobbes and Spinoza, which posed an even greater challenge to traditional religious and political values. Given the 'return of re...

Speaker: Professor Dominic Lieven This event was recorded on 8 October 2009 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building In 1812-14 Alexander I defeated Napoleon's invasion of Russia and then created and led a European alliance all the way to Paris. This lecture explains why and how he did this. It discusses Russian grand strategy, diplomacy and espionage, as well as the tsarist military machine, and the mobilisation of the home front. In both Western and Russian historiography the Russian ...

Bevis Marks Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in the UK (consecrated 1701), and is the 'cathedral synagogue' of a community which arrived in England in 1656 with the blessing of Oliver Cromwell, thus ending over three-and-a-half centuries of Jewish exile from this country. For the last 350 years this community has existed as an integral part of religious and cultural life in the City of London. This lecture explores the history of this interaction, with a particular focus on how it has af...

A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes been used as an historical precedent for the European Union, and specifically the way that the integration of the Roman monetary system has been seen as a (sometimes justifying) precedent for modern European monetary union. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-roman-denarius-and-the-euro-a-precedent-for-monetary-union Gresh...

A conversation on the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement at The New School, a university in New York City. THE NEW SCHOOL | http://www.newschool.edu - A public conversation with Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, William Greider, Rinku Sen and Patrick Bruner. TNS History: http://www.newschool.edu/about/history Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power Presented by THE NEW SCHOOL FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT | http://newschool.edu/public-engagement A...

In In this lecture, I explore Fyodor Dostoevsky's piece, "Notes from the Underground", examining some of the key philosophical themes introduced, the character of the underground man, and what we can reconstruct about him, his ideas, and his life. This classic piece of Existentialist literature stresses the role and freedom of the individual, the value and pleasure of whim, and how the utilitarian, scientific mindset misses the point

In this lecture from my Fall 2011 Introduction to Philosophy class at Marist College, we discuss Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, question 2: on the existence of God

Novelists reflected contemporary attitudes and influenced the way the City was seen both by the wider public at the time and then by later generations. Could long dead novelists have been far more powerful than long dead economists? Consider the fact that our view of Victorian society is so influenced by the negative images of Dickens when, at the time, Britain was the richest and most advanced country in the world! The transcript and downloadable versions of this event by Professor Ranald...

An area of which 19th century British mathematics could be uniformly proud was applied mathematics where new techniques were used on a wide range of problems. Figures such as William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin), Peter Guthrie Tait, George Stokes and James Clerk Maxwell succeeded in applying mathematics to understanding the physical world. They worked on many topics including mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, hydrodynamics and the theory of gases. This lecture will intr...

Psalters containing the 150 Psalms were immensely popular medieval manuscripts, used by a wide array of patrons for liturgical, scholastic and devotional purposes. This lecture explores how the Psalms inspired a rich tradition of literal, historical and interpretative illustration, from the 9th to the 14th centuries, across Europe. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/illuminated-...

Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most beautiful artefacts to survive from the Middle Ages. Their production involved transforming animal skins into parchment; copying texts; painting and gilding minatures; and binding folios between boards, a process that reveals much about medieval scribal and artistic practice. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-making-of-medieva...

Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London's charitable provision for the poor in medieval and early modern times. Hand in hand with public benevolence went great public interest in the objects of charity. Until 1770, the Hospital was open (at specified times of the week) to any member of the public who wished to see inside, and 'poor boxes' were strategically placed near the entrance for donations. Bethlem was by no means the only early modern hospital to permit this level of public acc...

"The Enlightenment" has been regarded as a turning point in the intellectual history of the West. The principles of religious tolerance, optimism about human progress and a demand for rational debate are often thought to be a powerful legacy of the ideas of Locke, Newton, Voltaire and Diderot. There was however a radical Enlightenment, indebted to the materialism of Hobbes and Spinoza, which posed an even greater challenge to traditional religious and political values. Given the 'return of re...

Professor Catherine Morgan, the 2012 Visiting Professor for the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (AAIA) delivers a public lecture at The Australian National University. Temples are nowadays taken for granted as essential features of Greek sanctuaries. Yet following the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces, the nature and function of buildings at cult sites varied greatly - and many sanctuaries were entirely open air. From the eighth century onwards, a marked increase in the number ...

Dr Michael Westaway from the Queensland Museum & Sciencentre presents a public lecture 'Investigating the signature for people and megafauna at South Walker Creek, Central Queensland'. This address was filmed at The Australian National University on Friday 31 August 2012. The extinction of the Australian megafauna in the public view occupies two alternate universes. One where Aboriginal people unwittingly unleash an ecological catastrophe within the span of several millennia after their ar...

Kathleen Jackson speaks with Emeritus Professor John Mulvaney AO, CMG as part of the School of History's ANU Summer Scholar Series. John Mulvaney AO CMG is an acclaimed archaeologist and historian of prehistory. Emeritus Professor Mulvaney pioneered the field of Australian archaeology. His extensive fieldwork has contributed significantly to understanding of Australia's early human occupation.

Historian and award-winning writer Martin Thomas is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU). In this interview he talks to ANU history professor Tom Griffiths about the theft of human bones from Aboriginal sites in northern Australia and their repatriation from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC more than sixty years later. The bones were taken in 1948 by Frank Setzler, Head Curator of Anthropology at the United States National Museu...

מלחמת 1948: זיכרון, שתיקה, שחזור שולחן עגול במסגרת הסדנה הבינלאומית Myth, Memory, and Historiography: The Case of the 1948 War בשיתוף מכון טרומן, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים ז בטבת תשע"א, 14 בדצמבר 2010 ברכות:פרופ' גבריאל מוצקין, ראש מכון ון ליר בירושלים יו"ר: פרופ' אברהם סלע, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים פרופ' אניטה שפירא, אוניברסיטת תל אביב יורם קניוק, סופר, צייר ועיתונאי מוחמד עלי טאהא, סופר ומחנך לאתר מכון ון ליר: http://www.vanleer.org.il

A video by Stephen Shwiff for history students at Columbia Gorge Community College

Una investigación coordinada en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) analiza las representaciones mitológicas en los mosaicos romanos y evidencia que los miembros más poderosos de las elites seleccionaban dioses y héroes griegos como símbolos con unos valores universales que reforzaban lo que significaba Roma. Más información en : http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/actualidad_cientifica/noticias/romanos

Friday, March 25th 9:00 a.m.: Keynote Speech by Renée Poznanski, Yaacov and Poria Avnon Professor of Holocaust Studies, Department of Politics & Government, Ben Gurion University, Israel. Resistance and the Rescue of Jews in France: from History to Historiography

(May 17, 2012) Amir Eshel and Gabriel Motzkin outline the goals, questions, purpose, and some of the material of the two-day "History and Memory: Global and Local Dimension" conference. The Europe Center, with project partner the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, hosted the major international conference at Stanford University, aimed to deepen our understanding of disputes over history, and to find ways towards resolving conflictual memory. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ The Fre...

Información sobre el acceso al sistema Westlaw, portal de servicios que cubren las diferentes necesidades de documentación jurídica (legislación, jurisprudencia, convenios colectivos, bibliografía, práctico social y noticias).

Una investigación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) desarrolla un algoritmo, basado en el comportamiento de las hormigas para buscar comida, que acelera la búsqueda de relaciones entre elementos presentes en las redes sociales. Más información en: www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/actualidad_cientifica/noticias/buscador_redes_sociales

Una de las claves para ser feliz en el trabajo es ganar mucho dinero, pero igual de importante, sino más, es que el salario no sea inferior al de nuestro grupo de referencia, es decir, los compañeros con los que nos comparamos. Eso revela un estudio de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) que analiza la relación entre la felicidad y la renta laboral. Más información en: http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/actualidad_cientifica/noticias/felicidad_laboral http://www.uc3m.es/portal/pag...

Oferta de Cursos de extensión universitaria. UNED Las actividades de extensión universitaria son todos aquellos cursos, jornadas, seminarios, congresos, etc., impartidos en los distintos Centros Asociados, que se realizan bajo las diversas formas de nuestra metodología, cualquiera que sea la titulación exigida a los alumnos inscritos en los mismos y encaminadas a la expedición de un diploma o certificado. También estarán comprendidas en las actividades de extensión universitaria, los congr...

Peter Meisser es Catedrático de Comunicaciones Ópticas en la Universidad Técnica de Darmstadt (TUD) (Alemania). En el curso 2012-13 desarrolla una investigación en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid como Catedrático de Excelencia. Más información en: http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/conocenos/catedras_excelencia/catedras_excel_2012/Meissner

Las actividades que realiza la biblioteca para extenderse más allá de sus servicios convencionales, como préstamo o información bibliográfica.