by Alex Jordan | Oct 28, 2017 | Guest speaker
It is often said that more has been written about Martin Luther than anyone other than Jesus of Nazareth, so the inevitable question for any new book about the infamous Wittenbergian friar is whether or not it has anything new to say. This was the task set before...
by Alex Jordan | Oct 13, 2016 | Guest speaker
Our second speaker of the academic year was Javier Castañon, Head of Technical Studies at The Architectural Association, who spoke about Beauty and Wonder in Buildings. In particular, he spoke about the subtleties of architectural craft he employed to bring together a...
by Dominic Jones | Oct 8, 2015 | Guest speaker
David Letterman: “What is the literal translation [of Magna Carta]?” David Cameron: “You are testing me.” David Letterman: “Oh it would be good if you knew this…” David Cameron: “Yeah, well it would be.” It is worrying that even our Prime Minister has forgotten the...
by Dominic Jones | Feb 24, 2015 | Guest speaker
To claim that Edmund Burke was “the visionary who invented modern politics” may seem somewhat bold, for it requires us to ask ourselves in what sense Burke was a ’visionary’ and what we mean by ’modern politics.’ But this was what the Conservative MP for Hereford and...
by Dominic Jones | Jan 30, 2015 | Guest speaker
Inter their bodies as becomes their births: Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled […] And then, as we have ta’en the sacrament, We will unite the white rose and the red . . . . Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, from Shakespeare’s Richard III The recent visit to...
by Dominic Jones | Dec 15, 2014 | Guest speaker
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote. This quotation from the preface of Samuel Johnson’s...
