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.
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


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?
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

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

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