The Romanes Lecture

The Romanes Lecture is an annual public lecture at Oxford University. The first was given in 1892 by William Gladstone. Subsequent speakers have included Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, Edward Heath, AJP Taylor, Tony Blair and Sir Paul Nurse.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Making the Case for Democracy	Hillary Clinton delivers the Romanes Lecture of Hope in the Sheldonian Theatre, 25th June 2018	Hillary Clinton	31 January, 2019
The Limits of Science	Lord Rees of Ludlow delivers the 2011 Romanes Lecture.	Martin Rees	31 January, 2012
Tony Blair: The Learning Habit	UK Prime Minister Tony Blair delivers the 1999 Romanes lecture, explaining what the government is seeking to achieve in its programme of education reform, and how as a nation in the 21st century we can achieve a ‘learning habit’ across society.	Tony Blair	13 March, 2009
Gordon Brown: Science and our Economic Future	UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers the 2009 Romanes Lecture, arguing that investment in science and the next generation of scientists is key to the UK's future competitiveness.	Gordon Brown	27 February, 2009
Muhammad Yunus: A Poverty-free World?	Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate and pioneer of microcredit, gave this year’s Romanes lecture on ‘A poverty-free world: When? How?’.	Muhammad Yunus	8 December, 2008

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