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The world’s leading professors explain the latest thinking in the humanities and social sciences in just 10 minutes.
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Symbolic Liberalism and Dialogical Sociology
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Disability as a driver of change: depathologising the university
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Why and how are machine learning algorithms are driving polarisation?
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Fake News and the Victorians: Literature in the First Information Age
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Figuring Forth: Cervantes’ Don Quijote, Poet in Prose
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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What can ancient civilisations teach us about sustainability?
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Why are cities an important part of climate change?
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Tutankhamun’s Table: Food & Drink for a King
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Judith Butler on Gender
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Who invented the potato? And why should we care?
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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The Man Who Shot Nelson: A French Take on Trafalgar
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Why Truth is Not Enough
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and Beginnings of Western Mysticism
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May 30, 2025 |
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The rise and fall of Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Schubert’s Die Forelle: how a classical music piece changes over time
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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'Salvator Mundi': Leonardo da Vinci's missing masterpiece?
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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What does a neuropsychologist do?
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Traditional Japanese theatre and audience interaction
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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What are empires, nation states and colonialism?
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Books in wartime: innocent victims or guilty parties?
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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What was the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings?
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Shakespeare in popular culture
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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What have sign languages taught us about human language development?
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Aesthetics and emotions in pre-modern India
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Freud, Hollywood and the male gaze
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Genocide and International Law
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Hannah Arendt's lessons for our times: the banality of evil, totalitarianism and statelessness
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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What is extremism?
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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South Asia, the partition of India and the birth of three nations
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Plato, Aristotle and the question of self: what makes you 'you'?
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Coffee as connection – tradition, controversy and literary representations
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Why politics fails
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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What makes us social? Autism, mentalising, and the need for new labels
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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The Lion of the 17th: the story of Georges Dukson and the Liberation of Paris
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Hypermasculine leadership
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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The politics of humiliation
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Paradoxes of the Roman Arena
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Public finances and the Union since 1707
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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The making of Oliver Cromwell
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Poetry as Experience
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Disastrous: thoughts on a pandemic inspired by ancient astrology
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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The 1951 UN Refugee Convention: its origins and significance
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Syntax: where the magic happens
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Looking at sign languages
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: The East India Company and the English quest for Japan
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Crèvecœur: What is an American?
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Goods and possessions in late medieval England
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Writing the history of the British Academy
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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The Early Foucault
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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George II Augustus von Welf, British King and German Prince-Elector
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May 26, 2021 |
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The Spectre of War - International Communism and the Origins of World War II
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May 19, 2021 |
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Women and mental health – talking about feelings
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May 12, 2021 |
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Napoleon and God
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May 05, 2021 |
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Choosing a title – George Eliot and 'The Mill on the Floss'
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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More than one language - why bilingualism matters
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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The miners’ strike of 1984-85
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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The nature of friendship
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Spinoza on philosophising
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Dealing with the past in Northern Ireland
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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What does the Good Friday Agreement mean?
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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The history of Belfast, a strange case of shared identity and sectarian division
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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China’s 14th Five Year Plan – the bold and the beautiful
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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In praise of Queen Astrid of Norway
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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The power of stories and the practice of rhetoric
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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The death of John Keats and his early reputation
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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The origins of Stonehenge
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Charles Darwin and ideas of evolution
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Saladin and the Crusades: medieval and modern perspectives
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and warnings from Hannah Arendt
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Atheism in debate
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Religion, theology and the ultimate nature of reality
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Racism and religion in America – sin and the elusive 'problem of seeing'
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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The Hitler Conspiracies
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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The function of cynicism at the present time
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Dark data
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Domestic and sexual violence during COVID-19
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Science hasn't refuted free will
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Early Medieval Wales – a matter of identity
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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What defenders of the slave trade have to teach us
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Why laughter matters
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Britain and Europe in a Troubled World
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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The crisis of the meritocracy - why Britain has needed more and more education
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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COVID-19 and inequalities
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Entrepreneurship
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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COVID-19 public inquiry - a case of when, not if?
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Religion and the history of terrorism
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Art historian, professor, writer, spy – the extraordinary story of Anthony Blunt
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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War, revolution and pandemic 1918-19
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Keeping a diary in 1941
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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The life and work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Climate and war
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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America first and American fascism
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Westminster Abbey - A Church in History
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Theatre marketing and ballads in the time of Shakespeare
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Parenting for a digital future
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Can watching films be good for us?
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Philosophy in prison
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Music and wellbeing
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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How disabled people achieve good lives in three African countries
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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China's good war
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Making the real Thomas Cromwell stand up
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Sep 01, 2020 |