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What is the rich & diverse history of computers? Computers: A History #GreshamLecture Even the most humdrum of electrical devices nowadays contains at least one computer; yet surprisingly few people are aware of their history, their form or function. In this talk we will see that not only is the history of computers rich and diverse, their architecture likewise. Astonishingly, all the computers ever made can be modelled by one universal machine – the Turing machine. Gresham Professor of IT @Rich
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What is the contrast between Charles Dickens’s public image and private life? Dickens: The Last Decade #GreshamLecture In the last ten years of his life Charles Dickens related to his adoring public in a number of different ways; as novelist, as journalist, as public speaker, and in public readings of his own work. This lecture explores the contrast between the public image and the private life, considering what his writings reveal to us about his deepest preoccupations, both as man and as artis
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What is a Gothic Novel? Fiction and the Supernatural #GreshamLecture From Horace Walpole to Ann Radcliffe, renegade novelists of the eighteenth century wanted to claim back the supernatural for fiction and so invented the Gothic Novel. This lecture pursues the gift of Gothic to later novelists, seeing how great Victorian novelists like Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens were entranced by the supernatural. Finally, it looks at how the possibility of supernatural explanation energi
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🔔NEW: The 2022-3 @GreshamCollege programme is now out. From the sciences to the arts, humanities, business - and more - we have 120 lectures for you! https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/lecture-series-2022-23 We are welcoming five new Gresham Professors including Professor Ronald Hutton, a world-leading expert on paganism who is giving a series of lectures on Finding Britain's Lost Gods; Professor Myles Allen, the Physicist behind Net Zero, whose first year of lectures is Why Net Zero?; Professo
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41K views · 219 reactions | NEW: The @GreshamCollege programme is now out. From the sciences to the arts, humanities, business and more we have 130 lectures to indulge your love for learning. Be #InTheKnow order your new programme here: https://gres.hm/programme | Gresham College | Facebook
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