100 talks

The origin of Academies in Ancient Greece.

Architecture and urban change in West Oxford.

Beowulf.

Sustainable Energy.

Gemstones.

The Body Line Tour.

The origins of the Internet.

How to have and execute good ideas.

Writing for children.

Citizen advocacy.

Looking at modern art.

The Czech air traffic control  system.

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri:  a swift overview.

Icons.

In Search of Camarón de la Isla.

9/11 & the War on Terror – an alternative perspective.

The 40 % House: ideas for sustainable improvements to existing houses.

The Internet and Culture: democratization or dumbing-down?

The challenge of climate change and poverty.

A local, published poet reads some of his favourite poems and some of his own, and discusses the nature and craft of poetry – and why many readers now suffer from fear of poetry.

Herbs.

The never-ending detective puzzle – piecing together family history.

The Thames in West Oxford: a literary tour.

Thoughts about museums.

Trading shares in Public Limited Companies.

Nietzsche: how to philosophize with a hammer.

Vaccines: the current state of affairs and the evidence for and against vaccines.

The 1911 Festival of Britain at the Crystal Palace.

Birth of the blues.

The joy of concrete.

Weather forecasting.

What does a SOCO do – the proof is out there.

My life as an immigration judge.

A short history of social housing.

How can we encourage the immune system to fight tumours?

Archaeological excavations in Sark.

Removing arcane pronunciation and grammar from English to enhance its status as the international language.

What is environmental education?

The life of a freelance photographer.

Zanzibar - The history and politics of a tropical island in the Indian Ocean.

Ecopsychology - It's natural.

Molecular language of the immune system.

A short history of Morse code.

Steam trains behind the Iron Curtain.

Exploring plagiarism via Wombles, the DaVinci Code and Botswana.

The cyborgs are coming - the pros and cons of having wires stuck in your brain.

Talking therapies for severe mental illness.

Refugees in Oxford in the Second World War.

The Origin of the Serif: an unwelcome answer to a 1000 year old question.

Tom Rolt and the Industrial Heritage.   Chile: Politics and Literature.   Garden Cities.   The Diamond synchrotron: illuminating science.   The greatest history lesson ever.   Air Traffic control.   Is the future nuclear?   Pre-modern Japanese syntax: A corpus based study.   Recovering the proceeds of crime: freezing and seizing the assets of criminals.   Pots for the people - looking at English slipware.   Is it organic? And does it matter?   Oxford’s dual cycling network.   Romania: vampires, communists and a brighter future.   The Bletchley Park Story.   Our language: uses; misuses; abuses.   Thomas Jefferson and religious freedom - in the USA and the UK.   Oxford disunited: The Cutteslowe walls.   The subversive stitch.   Origins of the Spanish Civil War: the Second Spanish Republic 1931-1936.   Burke and Wills and the Dig Tree: The Victorian Exploring Expedition of 1860.    Reminiscences of a Community Nurse in West Oxford.   Being constructive on the West Bank – stories from behind the Wall.   Insect movement and robot design: cockroaches, coupling and complexity.   Measuring the stars in the Australian bush.   Back in the USSR – 44 years of going to Russia.   Stunning Sicily.   Road Rage-a psychotherapist's perspective.   Wine and escargot for dinner tonight? Archaeological finds from a Roman settlement in the Egyptian Desert.   Monetising publishing in the digital era.   Life as an online journalist.   Why gun control is difficult in the USA.   Privatising public services: the case of prisons.   Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Movement.   Mountain village of refuge in Vichy France, Pastor Trocme and Le Chambon sur Lignon.   The Mary Rose.   Tottel's Miscellany.   Anarchism: a social philosophy.   How should history judge Gordon Brown?   The Woman Reader.   Ethiopia, 1965, Places & People.   Cycling in Syria.   Starting a charity - how to make a difference.   Letters from India 1945-47.   ‘Your grandmother is very happy for you to come to her place' A family odyssey into North China.   Self-publishing: friend or foe?   Seeing double: children and animals.   Get mad, get even, get published - how writing an angry commuter blog led to a book deal.   Understanding International Politics.   Pregnancy and childbirth customs in the Mandara Mountains of Nigeria.   Citizens in Uniform: Policing and the Constitution.   Williams Syndrome.