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Futuremakers
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Cholera

Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Reynard the Fox

In this BodCast from the Friends of the Bodleian, Professor Dame Marina Warner interviews Anne Louise Avery, writer and art historian, on the subject of Avery's recent book, Reynard the Fox https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/reynard-the-fox
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The 2020 Besterman Lecture: Who were the French Revolutionaries?

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford'

Local historian, Liz Wooley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape.
Asian Studies Centre

Jeko Khere So Khaye (He who tills has the right to eat); 'development' and the politics of agrarian reform in late 1940s and early 1950s in Sindh

Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series.
Almanac – The Oxford Middle East Podcast

Avi Shlaim on Revisionist History and Israel

Piotr Schulkes and Avi Shlaim, Fellow of the British Academy, sit down to discuss Israel’s New Historians; who they are, what they believe, and the popular reception to it.
Asian Studies Centre

Global histories of hierarachy? Reflections from India on Caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement

Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) and Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford) give a talk for the Modern South Asian Studies seminars on the Black Lives Matter movement.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe written by Professor Judith Herrin. Date: 4 November 2020.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Transnational Francoism

Bàrbara Molas discusses Transnational Francoism: The British and The Canadian Friends of National Spain as part of the TORCH Network Conversations in Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood. Bàrbara Molas is a PHD Candidate in History at York University
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: Imagined Journeys: Pilgrimage, Diplomacy, and Colonialism in Medieval Europe

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: White Rose - Voices of the German Resistance

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: Living with Pandemics: Finding New Narratives

In conversation with Dr Erica Charters and Robin Gorna. TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Performance Week​
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Live Event: Celebrating Tchaikovsky

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Music Week
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: In Conversation with Maaza Mengiste

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!
Temple of Science
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Episode 5 – Babylon: Natural Theology versus Scientific Naturalism

When Museum opened in 1860, a new secular approach to science was on the rise. In the final episode of Temple of Science we see how ‘natural theology’ responded to the challenges of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection.
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Episode 4 – Chambers of the Ministering Priests: Building Scientific Disciplines

The Museum was founded on the principle that art should be used to teach science and to inspire generations of scientists. In episode 4 of Temple of Science we see how this was put into practice in some of the building’s less familiar spaces.
Temple of Science
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Episode 3 – The Sanctuary of the Temple of Science: The Central Court

The central court of the Museum was described by one founder as ‘the sanctuary of the Temple of Science’. In this episode we see how every detail of this unique space was carefully planned and crafted to form a comprehensive model of natural science.
Temple of Science
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Episode 2 – 'God’s Own Museum': The Façade

In episode 2 of Temple of Science, we take a closer look at the decoration on the outside of the Museum building, which captures the vitality of nature, presented in Victorian Oxford as the study of God’s creation.
Temple of Science

Episode 1 – Oxford's Pre-Raphaelite Natural History Museum

In the first episode of Temple of Science we find out how the Museum came to be, involving not only scientists but artists, architects and designers in one of the most original creative collaborations of the Victorian age.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: Invalids on the Move

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

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