King's College
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Climate Change: Insights from King's
Audio from The London Event, "Climate Change: Insights from King's". Recorded on Tuesday 30 September 2008 at 6.30pm.
Collection: Talks, lectures and seminars
Institution: King's College
Created: Sat 4 Oct 2008
Interview of Alan Macfarlane - part of the DART project at the L.S.E.
The interview was made in February 2008 by Clarinda Still as part of an LSE project
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 8 Jul 2011
Invention of Modern World: lecture 2 - Trade, War and Empire
England was a warlike, but also a trading nation. It was involved in constant warfare – but on other’s soil, with other’s troops, or at sea. It also built its wealth on trade. And...
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 18 May 2011
Invention of the Modern World (10): Associations, Trust and Civil Society
Lecture at Tsinghus University by Alan Macfarlane 2011
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 8 Jul 2011
Invention of the Modern World (11): Power and Bureaucracy
Lectures at Tsinghua University by Alan Macfarlane in 2011
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 8 Jul 2011
Invention of the Modern World (12): Law and Justice
Lectures at Tsinghua University by Alan Macfarlane in 2011
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 8 Jul 2011
Invention of the Modern World (13): Education and Language
Lectures at Tsinghua University by Alan Macfarlane in 2011
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 8 Jul 2011
Invention of the Modern World (14): Myths of Unity
Lectures at Tsinghua University by Alan Macfarlane in 2011
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 8 Jul 2011
Invention of the Modern World (15): Religion and Ethics
Lectures at Tsinghua University by Alan Macfarlane in 2011
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 8 Jul 2011
Invention of the Modern World (16): English character
Lectures at Tsinghua University by Alan Macfarlane in 2011
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 8 Jul 2011
Invention of the Modern World (17): Concluding reflections - the answer
Lectures at Tsinghua University by Alan Macfarlane in 2011
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 8 Jul 2011
Invention of the Modern World (1): What is the question?
What question should we should ask - what is the puzzle I am trying to solve? What is modernity? What have been the favoured explanations of when and why it emerged? A brief...
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 18 May 2011
Invention of the Modern World (3): The Technology of Production
The nature and history of industrial and agricultural technology is one way in which England achieved and held its great Empire. By the eighteenth century England had the most...
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 18 May 2011
Invention of the Modern World (4): Capitalism, Money and Markets
Partly England could be the first industrial nation because it had a very sophisticated capitalist economy stretching back hundreds of years. It was full of money, markets,...
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 18 May 2011
Invention of the Modern World (5): Material World and Demography
Affluence, material wealth and demography of England compared to other countries. l
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 6 Jun 2011
Invention of the Modern World (6): Universities and Science
The nature of universities and the search for reliable knowledge in England
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 6 Jun 2011
Invention of the Modern World (7): Caste, class and social mobility
The curious English social structure over the centuries - open yet hierarchical
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 6 Jun 2011
Invention of the Modern World (8): Games, sports and hobbies
A central feature of English culture has been play - games, sports and hobbies have filled much of life.
Collection: Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane
Institution: King's College
Created: Mon 6 Jun 2011
King's College Christmas ecard 2008
A short film used for a Christmas ecard in 2008. The film features the interior of King's College Chapel and is accompanied by King's College Choir singing 'Dormi Jesu' by John...
Collection: King's College multimedia
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 19 Dec 2008
King's College Christmas ecard 2008
A short film used for a Christmas ecard in 2008. The film features the interior of King's College Chapel and is accompanied by King's College Choir singing 'Dormi Jesu' by John...
Collection: King's College multimedia
Institution: King's College
Created: Fri 19 Dec 2008
