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"The Strangers' Case" Speech from Sir Thomas More
On May 1, 1517 — now referred to as Evil may Day — riots broke out in London as a response to an influx of immigrant workers. Eighty years later, a play was written that includes some of these events. The play, called Sir Thomas More,...
60 Second Histories
Thomas More’s execution
Thomas More talks about his impending execution together with that of John Fisher.
Gresham College
Financial Markets After The Crisis - More Europe or Less? - Verena Ross
One of Europe's top regulators talks about the future of the securities market after the crisisf='http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/financial-markets-after-the-crisis-more-europe-or-less' target='_blank'...
Sir Linkalot
Lesson 68 - More Things That Look Like Letters (Levels 3-5)
Sir Linkalot is an eggcellent app. In fact, it's a phenomenon! Cluck cluck... Material Covered: Vulnerable Susie's Story - The Prefix 'Sub' Phenomenon Susie's Story - Phenomenon Privilege Benefit Anxious
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Facial Reconstructions of Elizabeth Woodville & King Edward IV - What did they really look like?
Welcome to the mini of the Wars of the Roses video we posted last week: • The Real Story Behind Game of Thrones...
Today we will reveal re-creations of Edward, and his wife of legendary beauty,...
Today we will reveal re-creations of Edward, and his wife of legendary beauty,...
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Sir John Meurig Thomas discusses Humphry Davy's development of the miner's safety lamp
2015 sees the 350th anniversary of the journal Philosophical Transactions, making it the world’s oldest scientific journal. As part of the celebrations to mark this anniversary, The Royal Society has published special issues of...
Gresham College
The White Plague: A Social History of Tuberculosis - Professor Sir Richard J. Evans
Of all diseases tuberculosis is the most widely represented in literature, opera and drama. The disease has been present in humans since prehistory and hence has a particularly long pedigree of representation in myth and culture, being...
Sir Linkalot
Lesson 68 - More Things That Look Like Letters (Levels 3-5)
Material Covered:Vulnerable,Susie's Story - The Prefix 'Sub'<br/>
Phenomenon,Susie's Story - Phenomenon,Privilege,Benefit,Anxious
Phenomenon,Susie's Story - Phenomenon,Privilege,Benefit,Anxious
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Full Metal Helmet: The Real Civil War Hero | 'Orrible Oliver Cromwell | Horrible Histories
Subscribe for more Horrible History='http://bit.ly/HorribleHistoriesSubscribe' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>History Visit our website: horrible-histories.co.uk A preview for the film Full Metal Helmet is soon ceased with some...
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Seeing London #4 1920s
Tour of London and environs in the 1920's by Burton Holmes. Windsor Castle, Eton students, tall hats and tails, Hampton Court, Washington Inn, Duke of Connaught, officers, stadium crowd, Sir Thomas Lipton, laughing girls, baseball game,...
Gresham College
A World Without News? - Alan Rusbridger
THE SIR THOMAS GRESHAM ANNUAL LECTURE 2017 An economic model for news that has existed for 200 years or more is disappearing. Are we facing the prospect of societies without 'news' as previously understood? And why does it matter? Alan...
Gresham College
Climate Change: A Defining Challenge for the 21st Century?
This lecture examines the scientific evidence for climate change describing how simulations of the Earth's weather and climate are constructed. Climate Change: A Defining Challenge for the 21st Century? by Dame Julia Slingo FRS This...
Professor Dave Explains
Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Wouldn't it be amazing if the government just gave you money every month, so that you didn't have to worry so much about rent and bills? Well this precise arrangement has been discussed among economists for centuries. It's called...
Langfocus
Luxembourgish - The National Language of Luxembourg
This video is all about Luxembourgish and its features, in comparison with Standard German. I also talk about Luxembourg as a rich multilingual environment and try to give a bit of an idea of what life must be like there. Luxembourg is...
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How did a Queen end up being executed at the Tower of London?
In Locked Up in The Tower, Annabel’s uncle is a Beefeater, one of the special Yeoman Warders at the Tower of London! He’s always telling her about the famous prisoners the Tower of London has held over the years so she’s taking us on a...
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How did a Queen end up being executed at the Tower of London?
In Locked Up in The Tower, Annabel’s uncle is a Beefeater, one of the special Yeoman Warders at the Tower of London! He’s always telling her about the famous prisoners the Tower of London has held over the years so she’s taking us on a...
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Irish Potato Famine - Black '47 - Extra History - #3
Watching the Irish suffer from the view of London, Sir Charles Trevelyan believed that the potato famine was part of God's will. Inspired by the meritocracy-based philosophy of starvation that Thomas Malthus held, Treveylan created a...