Public lecture series

Throughout the year, the University is pleased to offer a series of lectures which are open to the public. These lectures are all free of charge. However, if you would like to make a donation to support student scholarship and hardship funds a collection box will be available after each event. If you would like to book tickets for a lecture, please complete the booking form below or call 01772 892344.

NB. Tickets will only be posted to you 2 weeks prior to the lecture.

Past Lectures

Who were the poor?: Poverty and the workhouse in nineteenth-century Lancashire
By Dr Andrew Gritt, Director of the Institute of Local and Family History, School of Education and Social Science. Thursday 9 February 2012, 7.00pm.
Two hundred people attended and they thought it was a fascinating insight into the complex lives of the Victorian poor.

Local Heritage for Local People: When is a Building Worthy of Protection?
By Chris, O'Flaherty, Lecturer, School of Built and Natural Environment. Wednesday 21 March 2012.
The lecture explored the historical background to listing and the evolution of the listing system. 80 people attended this interesting and informative lecture.

Forthcoming Lectures

London and the Olympics: 1908-2012
By Professor John Horne, Professor of Sport, School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors
Thursday 10 May 2012, 7.00pm
Darwin Lecture Theatre

Professor of Sport and Sociology, School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors, UCLan
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event on earth, with television audiences measured in billions of viewers. By what process did the Olympics evolve into this multi-national phenomenon? How can an understanding of the Olympic Games help us to better understand international sport and society? And what will be the true impact and legacy of the London Olympics in 2012?

The lecture will answer all of these questions by exploring the full social, cultural, political, historical and economic context to the Olympic Games. It traces the history of the Olympic movement from its origins in ancient Greece, through its revival in the nineteenth century, to the modern mega-event of today.