For the moment we are all expecting the final results from the 2024 USA presidential election and Donald duck Trump already proclamed because because he is ahead without having the number of 270 electors votes to win. I haven't heard anything from Kamala Harris this morning yet (Romanian time), so this lecture done by Professor Janina Ramirez yesterday for the Gresham College matters: rediscovering remarkable historical figures such as the Birka Warrior Woman, Hildegard of Bingen, and King Jadwiga offers a fresh perspective to understand an era often dismissed as 'nasty, brutish, and short'.

Just another piece about history, a lecture for Gresham college recorded by Melissa Lane on 26th September 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London, and it may be important if the laws created and used by ancient Greeks iinfluence us about as much they influenced humans about 2 thousand years ago.

The history is full of fights between countries, between religions, inside religions, between humans and inside human minds, and the lecture by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity, from the 20th November 2019 gives you an example about the Christian religion in England.

If you like history and mithology of this world you can also explore the famous depictions of the tale of Laocoön, who the gods punished for warning the Trojans about the Greeks' wooden horse.

People are saying that history keep repeating. It's not repeating the same things each time, is more like a cycle - it's repeating the mistakes in a different context. Tough and bad times are learning people to be tough and those people are making those times to be good, and the good times are people weak and the times are becoming tough again.

Spain became a byword for cruelty during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and the professor Alec Ryrie, a Gresham Professor of Divinity, started to explore in 25 September 2019 for the Gresham college this dark history and highlight some forgotten areas.