Lecture Reports
Below you will find reports from our lectures. Either click the title to view the report online or download a copy by clicking on the file name next to 'Download report'. Use the search box on this page to find a particular report.
The talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Professor Peter Sarris, Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies, University of Cambridge, on the Reign of Justinian and the Plague.
Peter Sarris is Professor of Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He trained as a historian in Oxford, where he was a Fellow of All Souls College.
He has written extensively on Early Medieval and Byzantine History, and his publications include Byzantium - A Very Short Introduction (2015) and Justinian - Emperor, Soldier, Saint (2023)(which was the Sunday Times, London Evening Standard and BBC History Magazine 'Book of the Year').
Joint lecture with Cirencester Archaeological and Historical Society
- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2024
- Professor Peter Sarris: Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies
- University of Cambridge
A talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Dr Daniel H. Stones BSc, MSc, MRes. PhD, FHEA on the effects of dietary iron on bowel cancer.
Joint lecture with Royal Society of Chemistry, speaker selected by RSC
- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 13 Mar 2024
- Dr Daniel H. Stones BSc, MSc, MRes. PhD, FHEA
- Senior Lecturer in Biosciences, University of Gloucestershire
A talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Dr Hugh Martin and Dr Christopher Wise about Hypochlorous Acid and its wonderful antibacterial properties.
- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 14 Feb 2024
- Dr Hugh Martin and Dr Christopher Wise
- Honorary Fellow of the RAU, and CSTS Member
A talk presented to the Cirencester Science & Technology Society by Dr Nigel Wright, recently retired Programme Manager at Thales Alenia Space UK.
The talk discussed the various technical challenges facing the engineering team during the design phase which were driven by its unique journey around the Solar System, and some of the results and discoveries which it gave us.
- Category: Lecture Reports
- Date: Wednesday, 10 Jan 2024
- Dr. Nigel Wright
- recently retired Programme Manager at Thales Alenia Space UK