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Letter from the Past – 07 – The Great Hunger

by Berwick Coates
Letter from the Past – 07 – The Great Hunger
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1490 views
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No 7 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode traces the historical and practical reasons for the Irish famine in the 1840s.

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00:35:00

Letter from the Past – 08 – England’s 9/11

by Berwick Coates
Letter from the Past – 08 – England’s 9/11
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1307 views
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No 8 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode looks at the parallels between 9/11 in 2001 and another attack from a disaffected minority in 1605

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00:32:00

Letter from the Past – 09 – First in War, First in Peace

by Berwick Coates
Letter from the Past – 09 – First in War, First in Peace
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1384 views
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No 9 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode examines the transfer of a few soldiers from the military into the highest levels of government, with special reference to....

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00:25:00

Letter from the Past – 10 – Who are the English?

by Berwick Coates
Letter from the Past – 10 – Who are the English?
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1350 views
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No 10 of ten talks examining the formation of the USA and its early development - from an English point of view. This episode shows how England and the USA have both increased their populations by waves of immigrants from many different areas.

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00:51:00

Music, architecture and acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating lost soundscapes

by Malcolm Longair
Music, architecture and acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating lost soundscapes
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 11 years ago | 1817 views
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During the Renaissance in Venice, composers such as the Gabrieli and Moneverdi created some of their greatest masterpieces for performance in the great churches on festive occasions. But what would the music have sounded like, given its complexity an....

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01:16:00

Raman Microscopy, Pigments and the Arts/Science Interface

by Robin Clark
Raman Microscopy, Pigments and the Arts/Science Interface
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1666 views
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Raman spectroscopy is a light scattering technique primarily used in the characterisation of vibrational modes of molecules and therefore in assessing the structure and composition of materials.

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01:06:00

Science and Art make comfortable bedfellows

by Peter Edwards
Science and Art make comfortable bedfellows
for 11-14 and upwards,
Lectures | 11-14 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1668 views
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With portrait painter Peter Edwards, Sir Harry Kroto discusses his love of art and science.

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00:59:00

Science and Fine Art

by David Bomford
Science and Fine Art
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1664 views
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David Bomford is Senior Restorer of Paintings at the National Gallery, London.  There is a long tradition of applying scientific techniques to the study of works of art.  This discourse reviews past and present approaches and shows that these advan....

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00:51:00

Science, the Enlightenment and the Internet

by Harry Kroto
Science, the Enlightenment and the Internet
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 16 years ago | 1987 views
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A wide-ranging discourse on how science and the enlightenment led to the great ideas of the founding fathers in the USA.

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00:28:00

The importance of Science, Art and Design

by Harry Kroto
The importance of Science, Art and Design
for All ages,
Lectures | All ages | 14 years ago | 1916 views
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The English mastermind comes to us for a special lecture and presentation on the fundamental role of art in scientific processes. Kroto will urge us to continue tapping into America?s most original and steadfast resource: creativity.nAt ARTISANworks,....

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The life and art of Bert Broomhead

by Amaryllis Rae
The life and art of Bert Broomhead
for All ages,
Lectures | All ages | 13 years ago | 2455 views
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The story of the artist and his paintings recounted by his daughter

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The Use of Optics in Art – David Hockney and Charles Falco

by Charles Falco
The Use of Optics in Art – David Hockney and Charles Falco
for All ages,
Lectures | All ages | 15 years ago | 4652 views
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Charles Falco describes his and David Hockney's theory of the use of optical devices by mediaeval artists.

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