Gresham Lectures

Conspiracy Theories: A Threat to Democracy?

Lessons from the Past, Warnings for the Future

The concluding lecture on The Great Plagues takes the example of...

The Great Unwashed

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series, was caused by

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century, was...

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have...

The Black Death

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in the...

Decolonization: The End of Empire?

European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918

Exploitation and Resistance

This lecture looks at the impact of empire on the colonizers and the...

From Conquest to Control

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European empires slowly imposed...

The Scramble for Africa

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to formal imperial...