How do you help people understand the law? For Ancient Greeks, it was making a song and dance about it. Many archaic lawgivers captured imaginations by composing laws to be sung, making them easy to remember. One of the first lectures in the 2024-25 academic year at Gresham College will explain more about the institution of legal rules in Greek antiquity Gresham College Professor of Rhetoric, Melissa Lane will give the lecture entitled Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend. Professor Lane says: “I’ve always been fascinated by the resonance of these figures of the great lawgivers from Greek history and legend. Some were possibly legendary, like Lycurgus of Sparta. Others were unquestionably historical, such as Solon of Athens. One of the things that really interests me is that these figures are not the inventors of law as such. The Greeks knew that there were laws that had evolved before these great lawgivers came along. But they celebrated these figures as having pulled together a set of laws for a given society, usually at a kind of moment of crisis and social factionalisation, creating new cultural identities that those societies could identify with going forward.”
Piecing various fragments of a puzzle together can seem challenging to some, effortless to others. Determining the culprit of a murder mystery a movement as old as human existence. Masters in the field skilled at arriving at their conclusions, a detective’s detail oriented eye is a tool that has been immortalised within many a work of fiction. A detective nation, detective stories continue to dominate our entertainment realm, Sherlock Holmes the most recognisable of fictional characters in the murder mystery genre. The Lost Estate keeping true to the tradition of dramatising these much loved stories with their The Great Murder Mystery dining experience.
The music world looked to Munich this August, where the groundbreaking Adele residency hit all the right notes and set multiple records. Over 730,000 fans from all over the world came to see the unique artist as part of her series of ten open-air concerts. The concerts took place in the bespoke Arena at the Messe in Riem, which was tailor-made for her. More than two thirds of the visitors celebrated before and after the performances in the adjacent, first of its kind, Adele World with its diverse entertainment and catering offerings.
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are back, and this time it’s personal. 
Following their summer performances at Wilderness, Glastonbury Festival and Brighton’s Gay Pride to packed out crowds, Björn Again announces a brand-new UK tour for 2025. The tour will commence