by Society of Thirteen | Sep 19, 2022 | Past-Speakers
Astronaut Selection and UK’s Role in Future Space Exploration – 19 September 2022 Dr, Jaclyn Bell is a theoretical particle physicist, currently at Imperial College London where she is as Senior Teaching Fellow. She describes herself as a science communicator...
by Society of Thirteen | Jan 17, 2019 | Past-Speakers
The Georgian House around the World – 15 April 2019 Roger Mitchell is a former College Vice-Principal who now lectures for University of Liverpool and for the Arts Society. In this lecture he describes how, between 1720 and 1850 one of Britain’s most...
by Society of Thirteen | Jan 17, 2019 | Past-Speakers
The Real Heroes of Telemark * – Monday 20 May 2019 Martin Pailthorpe is a traveller, lecturer, TV producer and director with over 25 years’ experience of making challenging programmes in remote and testing environments. His films can regularly be seen on the...
by silumisisociety13 | Dec 17, 2018 | Past-Speakers
‘Neither formal nor falsely adorned’: The Landscapes of Jane Austen – Monday 17 December 2018 Dr Alan Crosby, the celebrated local historian and lecturer, returns to speak to us about landscape design in the late Georgian and Regency periods. He does so in the...
by Society of Thirteen | Nov 19, 2018 | Past-Speakers
To Eritrea and Ethiopia: ‘The Abyssinian Difficulty’: Retracing a Victorian Expedition – Monday 19 November 2018 John Pilkington has, on previous occasions, described his travels to us. Now he tells us about his 2018 adventure, retracing a Victorian Expedition...
by Society of Thirteen | Oct 24, 2017 | Past-Speakers
Dr Tony Waltham Jointly with the Royal Geographical Society – 24th October 2017 Dr Tony Waltham’s day job has always been as a geologist, but this has given him the opportunity to travel the world taking photographs. In his youth he was a caver, and started...
