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Gresham College lectures

Free public lectures since 1597, from a professor of music, of astronomy, of law and the rest, in a medieval hall off Holborn.

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Sir Thomas Gresham's will founded a college to give free lectures to Londoners, and it still does, four centuries on, with professors appointed for three-year terms in the original seven subjects and a few modern ones - astronomy, geometry, music, law, physic, rhetoric, divinity, and now business and the environment - giving series that anyone can walk into without a ticket or a qualification. Most are in Barnard's Inn Hall, a fourteenth-century hall hidden in a courtyard off Holborn that is itself worth the visit; others move to larger halls when the speaker is a draw. Everything is filmed and put online, but the hall is the point.

Where
Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, EC1N 2HH
Nearest station
Chancery Lane · 1 min walk

Free; dates and times on the college's programme, most in the early evening

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