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Explore how modern espionage, both digital and human, shapes global power. This course examines real-world intelligence cases, focusing on state-sponsored spying, technology theft, and the evolving role of espionage in international strategy and security.
Meet the remarkable women who shaped the modern age: from suffragettes and spies to artists and pioneers. This course uncovers their real stories through lively discussion and fresh perspectives on a century of courage, wit, and change.
Discover what it takes to lead at the highest level. This course examines how top performers in business, science, the arts and sports achieve lasting excellence, revealing the mindsets, strategies and disciplines that define high-performance leadership.
The eternal fascination of artists, scientists, film-makers and writers alike, we explore the myriad manifestations of humankind’s engagement with time – from scratches on stone to the Theory of Relativity, from art-house cinema to the metaphysical novel.
Spanning several thousand years of European and anglophone drama, novels and film, this course searches for an answer to the questions 'why are comedies enjoyable?' and 'why do we laugh?'
Explore the important role played by noblewomen in creating France as the most powerful royal state in late medieval and early modern Europe. Includes field trips to The Wallace Collection, London, and Ewelme Church, Oxfordshire.
Spend a week exploring Deir el-Medina, the New Kingdom desert village of the pharaohs’ tomb-builders, uncovering daily life, love and loss. Includes a full-day trip to London, visiting the British Museum and the Petrie Museum.
Everyone has an interesting life story, and this course will enable you to present your own. In this practical summer school we shall learn about the pattern of ourselves so that we may present it to others.
Using music and film, this course tells the amazing story of the legendary first performance of Stravinsky's ballet score, the modernist 'The Rite of Spring' in Paris, 1913, and its aftermath.
Explore the evolution of Gothic literature from the nineteenth century to today. This course traces how writers and artists transformed the Gothic to reflect cultural fears, from haunted castles to modern horrors in film, art, and fiction.
Explore the criminal underworld of cyberspace. Discover how the dark web facilitates illegal hacking and how ransomware is disrupting our societies, and learn how governments are fighting back.
Fact or fiction? This course on the God dilemma will challenge everything you thought you knew about religion, reason and the mind – and then some. An accessible introduction to an issue that touches every culture and generation.
