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Christmas Lectures

Professor Sir Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE and others · Gresham College

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About

Professor Vernon Bogdanor relates this anecdote about the worst Christmas Party from the diaries of Hugh Gaitskell MP.

Lectures

  1. Chancellor Cripps' Crap Christmas YouTube
  2. Mazurkas and Christmas Lullabies 2005-12-01 · YouTube
  3. A Cause for Carolling 2014-12-10 · YouTube
  4. The 19th-century Taming of the Christmas Carol, from St Erth to Truro 2015-12-08 · YouTube
  5. The Founder of the Feast? Dickens and Christmas 2016-12-06 · YouTube
  6. Medieval Carols 2016-12-13 · YouTube
  7. NOW That's What I Call Carols: 1582! 2017-12-05 · YouTube
  8. The Man Who Invented Christmas: Film Adaptations of Dickens' A Christmas Carol 2019-12-10 · YouTube
  9. The Business of Santa Claus in Lapland 2019-12-11 · YouTube
  10. 1928 – Annus Mirabilis of the Christmas Carol 2019-12-12 · YouTube
  11. Christmas Lies and Legends 2020-12-09 · YouTube
  12. Boris Ord‘s King’s College Carols 2020-12-10 · YouTube
  13. Christmas Carols and Nostalgia 2021-12-09 · YouTube
  14. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Anatomy of a Christmas Classic 2023-12-06 · YouTube
  15. Unwrapping Irving Berlin’s "White Christmas" 2024-12-12 · Audio

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Taught by
Professor Sir Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE, Professor Adrian Thomas, Professor Jeremy Summerly, Professor Michael Slater, Dr Christine Corton, Dr Teea Palo, Judith Flanders, Professor Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, David Bedella, Beverley Klein
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics, History, Religion, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design, Music
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
Attribution
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