Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Rectors of the University of Glasgow

The (Lord) Rector of the University of Glasgow is one of the most senior posts within the institution, elected every three years by students. The theoretical role of the rector is to represent students to the senior management of the university and raise issues which concern them.

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  1. Benjamin Disraeli

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most famous politicians of the Victorian age, who broadened his fame and spread his ideas through popular novels.

    19 September 2024

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    Featuring: Lawrence Goldman, Emily Jones, Daisy Hay

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    HistoryFellows of the Royal SocietyEnglish AnglicansVictorian eraVictorian novelists19th-century English novelists19th-century AnglicansEnglish male novelistsUK MPs 1865–1868Members of the Privy Council of the United KingdomKnights of the GarterRectors of the University of GlasgowEnglish biographers19th-century English dramatists and playwrightsLords Privy Seal19th-century English poets19th-century English politiciansWriters from the London Borough of CamdenEnglish non-fiction writersPeople of the Victorian era

  2. Edmund Burke

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of the philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke, whose views on revolution in America and France were hugely influential.

    3 June 2010

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    Featuring: Karen O'Brien, Richard Bourke, John Keane

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    PhilosophyBritish political philosophersEnglish libertariansNatural law ethicistsIrish Freemasons, Irish libertarians, Irish people of English descentBritish MPs 1774–1780Historians of the French RevolutionEnglish people of Irish descent18th-century philosophersClassical liberalismStreathamitesSocial philosophers18th-century English writersPhilosophers of economics18th-century Irish philosophersVirtue ethicistsCritics of deism18th-century English philosophersPhilosophers of cultureIrish AnglicansPhilosophers of education18th-century Irish writersPhilosophers of artBritish MPs 1784–1790, British MPs 1790–1796Writers from Dublin (city)18th-century Anglo-Irish people, 18th-century Irish male writersRectors of the University of GlasgowConservatismPolitical philosophersPhilosophers of religionAnglican philosophersAlumni of Trinity College DublinBritish MPs 1780–1784, Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituenciesPhilosophers of history18th-century English male writers