Lunch hour lectures repository Autumn 2009
- The spirit of UCL
- Why psychiatry has to be social
- The new biology of ageing
- Dhoti, Suit and Trilby: M.K Gandhi and his opponents
- Seeing the invisible: Observing the dark side of the universe
- Tales of vampires and the undead
- Why the courts are as important as hospitals to the nation’s health
- The power of Lagerlöf
- Recession and the public health – what is the evidence?
- Liverpool to Liverpool
- A visual people and a visual language
- Living buildings: Towards sustainable cities
- The challenge of HIV refuses to disappear
- Studying dinosaur evolution – An early 21st century perspective
- The right to obscene thoughts
- The making of Johnson’s dictionary
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The making of Johnson’s dictionary
23 July 2009
Thursday 10 December (To mark the 225th anniversary of the death of Samuel Johnson, creator of the dictionary - 13 Dec)
Professor John Mullan (UCL English Language and Literature)
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language taught the British how to spell, established Shakespeare as their greatest writer and provided the first and longest lasting map of the English language in all its subtlety and variety. This lecture will tell the extraordinary story of how the first dictionary was made and take you inside what has become the least well known great book in our literature.
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