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The author of the book ‘Songs from the Suitcase’ Rosanna Moseley Gore will share insights into her multicultural family history where the Russian language and culture played an important part during her upbringing in London.

Join us for an illuminating panel discussion covering 'Life, The Universe, and Everything: The Next 50 Years of Astronomy,' featuring three Cambridge professors,Vasily Belokurov, Nikku Madhusudhan and Hiranya Peiris, working at the forefront of astronomical research.

The University Observatory in Cambridge opened in 1823, after 50 years of effort. Key figures in establishing the Observatory, the first non-College Cambridge department, included young mathematical astronomers – George Peacock, John Herschel, and Charles Babbage. Over the next century, the focus was optical positional astronomy, generating star catalogues.

Our human bodies contain a variety of chemical elements, each with its own distinct kind of atom. In this talk, we will look at the main chemical elements found in our human bodies and discover how the stars created these elements in the first place and then made them available to us – showing you are truly made of star stuff!

The 2024 Roskill Lecture will be delivered by Rt Hon Harriet Harman KC MP. Over the four decades that Harriet Harman has been in Westminster there have been hugely significant and important changes, but there remains a need to modernise the House. In this twentieth Roskill Memorial lecture, the Mother of the House will set out the agenda for the new government for modernising Parliament.