Gresham Lectures

Lessons from the Past, Warnings for the Future

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

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The Great Unwashed

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

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Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

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

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The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis

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The Great Pox

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

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The Black Death

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

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Decolonization: The End of Empire?

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

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Exploitation and Resistance

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

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From Conquest to Control

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

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The Scramble for Africa

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

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