# Christmas Lectures

- 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](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/christmas-lectures)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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

## Lectures

1. [Chancellor Cripps' Crap Christmas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/12e55c50ddec) (YouTube)
2. [Mazurkas and Christmas Lullabies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/729cc9bfea28) (YouTube)
3. [A Cause for Carolling](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/80c01059b79d) (YouTube)
4. [The 19th-century Taming of the Christmas Carol, from St Erth to Truro](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/5d788e549ae2) (YouTube)
5. [The Founder of the Feast? Dickens and Christmas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/ffcebc5d1695) (YouTube)
6. [Medieval Carols](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/4849e94ffb2f) (YouTube)
7. [NOW That's What I Call Carols: 1582!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/0e8941197c16) (YouTube)
8. [The Man Who Invented Christmas: Film Adaptations of Dickens' A Christmas Carol](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/fbb6810e32a7) (YouTube)
9. [The Business of Santa Claus in Lapland](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/846f5b6d0e61) (YouTube)
10. [1928 – Annus Mirabilis of the Christmas Carol](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/a53d2ad46444) (YouTube)
11. [Christmas Lies and Legends](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/b379370c276b) (YouTube)
12. [Boris Ord‘s King’s College Carols](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/afb1aff2d36b) (YouTube)
13. [Christmas Carols and Nostalgia](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/a7efb9b1f5e3) (YouTube)
14. [Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Anatomy of a Christmas Classic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/be0788ed4942) (YouTube)
15. [Unwrapping Irving Berlin’s "White Christmas"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-christmas-lectures/b006da7b0276) (Audio)