🔔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

Our 2023-2024 academic programme is out now! Over 100 free lectures across the arts & sciences; live online and in-person. Check them out: https://gres.hm/whats-on Includes exciting series' on #business, #ethics in #AI, the #environment, #neurodiversity, #medicine, #blackhistory, #publichealth, the #maths of #games / #puzzles, #music and ethical #law. Plus, Chris Whitty on Medicine After Disasters, Ronald Hutton on the Lost Gods of Europe and Dominic Broomfield-McHugh on Twentieth Century #Divas

Eminent historian Professor Ronald Hutton, a leading authority on paganism, witchcraft and magic, has worked at Bristol for an incredible 41 years! And the reason he's stayed here for so long...? Our wonderful students 👏 He paid tribute to their 'enterprise, kindness and goodwill' in a speech celebrating their graduation last week 🎓 Who's had the privilege of being taught by him in the last four decades? | University of Bristol

Happy Hallowe'en. The history of witches and witchcraft is something that has fascinated and frightened people throughout history. But who were witches and why has society been so wary of them? Also, what is the connection between witches and Hallowe'en? To answer these questions and more, we caught up with Professor Ronald Hutton from the Department of History - one of the world's leading experts on folklore, mythology and witchcraft. | University of Bristol

Coming soon at Gresham... Professor Ronald Hutton's new 2024/25 series will explore the origins and nature of Modern Paganism and Witchcraft Join our newsletter to be among the first to hear when tickets open: https://gres.hm/newsletter #goddesses #religion #magic #ancienthistory #history University of Bristol University of Bristol History Society Bristol University Historians Pagan Federation International Children of Artemis Order of Bards Ovates and Druids (OBOD) Society of Antiquaries of Lon

How can we collate the evidence to learn more? Gods of Prehistoric Britain #GreshamLecture Britain has one of the richest of all pagan heritages in Europe, defined as the textual and material evidence for its pre-Christian religions. The island is possessed of monuments, burial sites and a range of other remains not only from several distinct ages of prehistory, but also from three different major historic cultures. This lecture will look at what we know of prehistoric worship, focusing on Stone