Gresham Special Lecture Series
The Gresham Special Lecture originated in 1988 as a free public lecture delivered by a prominent speaker. It was devised as a focus-point among the other 126 free public lectures offered every year.
- 2012 - The Rt Hon John Bercow – 'Parliament and the Public: Strangers or Friends?'
- 2011 - Sir Adam Roberts – 'Reinventing the Wheel: The cost of neglecting international history'
- 2010 - Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers - 'The Challenges of the New Supreme Court'
- 2009 - Niall Ferguson - 'The Ascent of money: An evolutionary approach to financial history'
- 2008 - The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams – 'Early Christianity & Today: Some shared questions'
- 2007 - Sir Roy Strong - 'The Beauty of Holiness and its Perils (or what is to happen to 10,000 parish churches?)'
- 2006 - Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws - 'Walking the Line: Preserving liberty in times of insecurity'
- 2005 - Lord Winston - 'Should we trust the scientists?'
- 2004 - Lord Rees of Ludlow - 'Science in a Complex World: Wonders, Prospects and Threats'
- 2003 - Sir Harold Kroto - 'I think, therefore I am – a scientist'
- 2002 - M. S. Swaminathan - 'Towards Freedom from Hunger: A Global Food for Sustainable Development Initiative'
- 2001 - Dr Charles Saumarez Smith - 'Commerce and Culture in the Late Twentieth Century'
- 2000 - Hans Küng - 'A Global Ethics – A Challenge for the New Millennium'
- 1999 - Baroness Williams of Crosby - 'Snakes and Ladders: A reflection on a post-war political life'
- 1998 - Sir Adrian Cadbury - 'The Future for Governance: The rules of the game'
- 1997 - Dr Ian Archer - 'Thomas Gresham’s London'
- 1996 - Sir Peter Middleton - 'Banking Today'
- 1995 - Sir Michael Howard - 'Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of VE Day'
- 1993 - Howard Davies - 'The City and Manufacturing Industry'
- 1992 - Baron Hermann von Richthofen - 'A United Germany in the New Europe'
- 1991 - Revd. Dr J. Polkinghorne - 'Science and Theology: Traffic across the frontier'
- 1989 - Sir Ralf Dahrendorf - 'The Decline of Socialism'
- 1988 - The Most Reverend Kirill Archbishop of Smolensk - 'Russian Orthodox Church Life Today: The Second Millennium'
- 1987 - Sir George Porter - 'Popular and Unpopular Science'
- 1985 - The Rt Hon The Lord Young of Graffham - 'The Rise and Fall of the Entrepreneur'
- 1984 - Lord Blake - 'Monarchy'
- 1983 - Lord Scarman - 'Human Rights and the Democratic Process'
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