Term 24
Surprising crime.
Mindfulness and social change.
From farm waggon to silent double decker.
Literary translation.
The Ami project: reducing loneliness.
Stories of Oxford Castle: a West Oxford focus on historical crimes and punishments.
Some triumphs and disasters of Byzantium.
Wagner – behind the clichés.
Friday 20 December 2019
Term 23
Can machines learn? And what does it mean?
Psychedelic drugs: how do they work?
Petrol Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Owning, running a PHEV and being researched by GULOX (Go Ultra Low Oxford).
The Arctic Misadventures of William Loffey.
Bitcoin and blockchain.
The Bank of England 1946-1997: From Public Ownership to Operational Independence.
Port Meadow’s new WW1 Memorial – an insight into a community project.
The English, the Tsar and a Thunderbolt: Elizabeth I and Ivan the Terrible.
Can machines learn? And what does it mean?
Psychedelic drugs: how do they work?
Petrol Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Owning, running a PHEV and being researched by GULOX (Go Ultra Low Oxford).
The Arctic Misadventures of William Loffey.
Bitcoin and blockchain.
The Bank of England 1946-1997: From Public Ownership to Operational Independence.
Port Meadow’s new WW1 Memorial – an insight into a community project.
The English, the Tsar and a Thunderbolt: Elizabeth I and Ivan the Terrible.
Sunday 21 October 2018
Term 22
Brexit in 2018 – the issues: What are WTO rules? What is a customs union? Why is the single market so important?
Consumer Genetic Testing
Building toilets in Ghana
Being an artist
Why have psychotherapy? And how does it work?
1940, Oxford and the Invasion Summer
Derbyshire to the Himalaya - 60 years climbing in 30 minutes.
The Victorian Internet.
Brexit in 2018 – the issues: What are WTO rules? What is a customs union? Why is the single market so important?
Consumer Genetic Testing
Building toilets in Ghana
Being an artist
Why have psychotherapy? And how does it work?
1940, Oxford and the Invasion Summer
Derbyshire to the Himalaya - 60 years climbing in 30 minutes.
The Victorian Internet.
Term 21
Constructing gender and identity in classical law and myth: ancient mirrors for modern times
James Sadler, Oxford pastry cook and first English aeronaut
The history and future of the Internet
Youth gangs and street children: a complex reality
The not so golden age of travel writing
What a lockkeeper does when you’re not looking
Timbuktu, past and present.
Peace journalism
Constructing gender and identity in classical law and myth: ancient mirrors for modern times
James Sadler, Oxford pastry cook and first English aeronaut
The history and future of the Internet
Youth gangs and street children: a complex reality
The not so golden age of travel writing
What a lockkeeper does when you’re not looking
Timbuktu, past and present.
Peace journalism
Term 20
Frank Widenham Goodden – Oxfordshire’s first aviator? A story of an exceptional man, of balloons, airships and flying machines
I set up a Panto. Oh no I didn’t. Karen Starr
How do new immunotherapies work?
The three loves of Horatio Nelson: his wife, his lover – and his ship
Science and religion in Victorian Britain: how Christian thought contributed to the theory of evolution
Spain’s transition to democracy
The first ascent of Mont Blanc - a tale of jealousy, self-aggrandisement and skulduggery, in which the good guys nonetheless triumph in the end.
Bomb disposal in Iraq and Afghanistan: what is an IE?
Frank Widenham Goodden – Oxfordshire’s first aviator? A story of an exceptional man, of balloons, airships and flying machines
I set up a Panto. Oh no I didn’t. Karen Starr
How do new immunotherapies work?
The three loves of Horatio Nelson: his wife, his lover – and his ship
Science and religion in Victorian Britain: how Christian thought contributed to the theory of evolution
Spain’s transition to democracy
The first ascent of Mont Blanc - a tale of jealousy, self-aggrandisement and skulduggery, in which the good guys nonetheless triumph in the end.
Bomb disposal in Iraq and Afghanistan: what is an IE?
Term 19
Why is it taking George Osborne so long to reduce UK fiscal deficits and the public debt?
Formula One from back to front
Binsey and West Oxford
A history of cartography in 30 minutes
Tristan - a medieval German romance
Music in the Madhouse: Janet Frame's Faces in the Water (1961)
A brief history of liberalism and its role in today's society
Why is it taking George Osborne so long to reduce UK fiscal deficits and the public debt?
Formula One from back to front
Binsey and West Oxford
A history of cartography in 30 minutes
Tristan - a medieval German romance
Music in the Madhouse: Janet Frame's Faces in the Water (1961)
A brief history of liberalism and its role in today's society
Term 18
Port Meadow WW1 Aerodrome – Aerial photography training and a snapshot of Oxford in 1918
The spectacular life and death of Charles E. Bedaux
The plight of the bumble (and other) bees
Africa and the First World War
Was there a post-Second World War consensus?
Finding your way round Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli
The Mortal Man: a first collection of poems
Tom Simpson and Mont Ventoux: man, mountain and myth
Port Meadow WW1 Aerodrome – Aerial photography training and a snapshot of Oxford in 1918
The spectacular life and death of Charles E. Bedaux
The plight of the bumble (and other) bees
Africa and the First World War
Was there a post-Second World War consensus?
Finding your way round Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli
The Mortal Man: a first collection of poems
Tom Simpson and Mont Ventoux: man, mountain and myth
Term 17
White Feathers in WW1
Great Books for a Great Nation: the birth of general education in the USA
Reflections on changes in mental health care over recent decades
CuPiD – Home based treatment and rehabilitation for people with Parkinson's disease
Mixed Bag, a writer's journey through success and failure
German Unification and the end of the Cold War: Looking back after 25 years
The Red Army Faction: Terrorism in Germany in the 1970s
What I know about music
White Feathers in WW1
Great Books for a Great Nation: the birth of general education in the USA
Reflections on changes in mental health care over recent decades
CuPiD – Home based treatment and rehabilitation for people with Parkinson's disease
Mixed Bag, a writer's journey through success and failure
German Unification and the end of the Cold War: Looking back after 25 years
The Red Army Faction: Terrorism in Germany in the 1970s
What I know about music
Monday 20 October 2014
Term 16
Port Meadow's Bailey Bridge - fêted wartime "Wonder Bridge" fated to obscurity?
Pets as Therapy.
Clearing out cellular debris to fight ageing and to improve immunity.
Richard Wilson: "The Father of British Landscape”.
Being self-employed: burdens and benefits.
Learning a foreign language during the Roman empire: how and why?
The hunt for Tugan-Baranovski; a study in failure with some contemporary lessons.
3D Printing - What is it and how it is changing the world.
Port Meadow's Bailey Bridge - fêted wartime "Wonder Bridge" fated to obscurity?
Pets as Therapy.
Clearing out cellular debris to fight ageing and to improve immunity.
Richard Wilson: "The Father of British Landscape”.
Being self-employed: burdens and benefits.
Learning a foreign language during the Roman empire: how and why?
The hunt for Tugan-Baranovski; a study in failure with some contemporary lessons.
3D Printing - What is it and how it is changing the world.
Term 15
What Port Meadow Airfield? - a bygone era of flying from the meadow.
The Tower of Babel, Part II.
Therapeutic Reading in Medieval England.
The Scottish referendum - what will happen after the vote?
Why CND today?
Egyptian Greeks and their waste paper.
Making a name on the Enlightenment stage: James Bond, Harry Potter, and their 18th-century ancestors.
How democratic is the US presidential election?
What Port Meadow Airfield? - a bygone era of flying from the meadow.
The Tower of Babel, Part II.
Therapeutic Reading in Medieval England.
The Scottish referendum - what will happen after the vote?
Why CND today?
Egyptian Greeks and their waste paper.
Making a name on the Enlightenment stage: James Bond, Harry Potter, and their 18th-century ancestors.
How democratic is the US presidential election?
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