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Today is the anniversary of the death of Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry… 📜✨ Historian @holland_tom uncovers the impact of the Black Death on Chaucer’s life, and how it influenced The Canterbury Tales... Watch lecture: gres.hm/pilgrimages-holland @TheRestHistory

Already missing Professors @Melissa_S_Lane and Ronald Hutton? Hear more from them in our new podcast episode, where they explore religion in Ancient Greece… 🏛️✨ Listen via your favourite podcast platform or watch: gres.hm/hutton-lane-podcast @PUPolitics @UoBrisHistory

🎓 We'd like to extend a huge thank you to @Melissa_S_Lane *, who completed her tenure as the 50th Gresham College Professor of Rhetoric last night. We’re delighted that she has been elected a Fellow of Gresham College: gres.hm/m-lane-fellow * also of @PUPolitics

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Did you know Christopher Wren was one of the first people to map the moon? 🌙📜 Explore the 'Wren 300' lecture series, which reveals his extraordinary life as a polymath: an architect, mathematician, astronomer, anatomist and courtier. Watch: gres.hm/wren-300 @StJohnsOx

In the first of his series asking how #AI is already being positioned in our lives, @WCITLivery Prof Matt Jones explores how it is increasingly acting as therapist; support for anxiety, loneliness, and distress... Watch more: gres.hm/ai-therapist *also of @SwanseaUni #PDoom

What does the future hold in the fight to end the #HIV pandemic? @ParasiteMatt explores the advances in therapies, the scientific and regional challenges that remain, & the ongoing quest to bring an end to #AIDS 🎥 Watch more gres.hm/hiv-pandemic *also of @BiochemOxford

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The Myth and Promise of the U.K. Jury Trial How do our #jury protections compare with those in the U.S.? Professor @CliveSSmith examines impartiality, jury selection, challenges to bias, and post-trial juror inquiry. Watch more: gres.hm/myth-jury #law #uslaw #uklaw

Read all about it! For a suggested donation of £10 + p&p [each], you can recieve one of our books detailing the 400+ year history of Gresham College, its founder Sir Thomas Gresham, and the historic City of London.💡 Find out more: gres.hm/book-offer

✨ We exist on a choppy astronomical sea, disturbed by events hundreds of millions of light-years away. Prof @chrislintott explores black holes, gravitational waves – and how your favourite necklace came into being. 👉 gres.hm/black-holes #WSW2026 #Astronomy #Space

Happy birthday John Lennon! 🎉 Did you know he once wrote a song from the text of a circus poster? 🤡 Prof @miltonline explores the Beatles' musical invention in his lecture 'Magical Mystery Tour: The Invention of The Beatles'. Watch: gres.hm/beatles @lsostlukes

🌌 The Universe is expanding... but will it expand forever? Professor Katherine Blundell OBE explores the fate of galaxies, black holes and the Universe itself... 👉 gres.hm/end-of-universe 🚀✨ @OxfordPhysics #WSW2026 #Astronomy

Prof @CliveSSmith writes in @Independent on the botched execution of Christa Pike: gres.hm/css-ind-cp Catch up with his recent Gresham College lecture on what #Trump’s drive to “restore the #deathpenalty means for the 2,400 people on death row: gres.hm/trump-death

✨ Look deeper into the Universe and you look further back in time. ⏰ Prof @chrislintott explores the Great Debate: how new telescopes in the 20th century revealed the Milky Way is one galaxy among billions... 👉 gres.hm/galaxies-beyond #WSW2026 #Astronomy @OxfordPhysics

🚀✨Did you know there are more stars dying each year than those being born? Prof @chrislintott delves into this and more in this lecture, exploring how the end of the universe could reveal the secrets about its beginnings ✨ 👉 gres.hm/how-ends #WSW2026

🚀✨ This #WorldSpaceWeek, let's celebrate human curiosity and the incredible stories the universe has to tell. 🌌 Our collection of free #astronomy lectures takes you from stars and planets to black holes,and the origins of the Universe 👉 gres.hm/gresham-astronomy #WSW2026

🎵 Studies show we respond to rhythm & harmony even while asleep — & musical ideas have found their way into the dreams of composers from McCartney to Tartini. Prof @miltonline explores the strange magic shared by music, sleep & dreams Watch: gres.hm/music-sleep @SurreyDMM

Why does a whip make that astonishing crack? Professor @AlainGoriely* reveals the surprising #mathematics behind the extreme acceleration of whips and chains - & how infinity itself helps create the sound More: gres.hm/cracking-whip *also of @OxUniMaths #maths #mathematics