2018 Gender equality: Core principle of modern society? by Anne Phillips (text | audio)
2017 The New Negro, the Politics of Respectability, and the Harlem Renaissance by Henry Louis Gates Jr (event information - cancelled)
2016 The rise of ‘no religion’ in Britain: The emergence of a new cultural majority, by Linda Woodhead (text | video)
2015 ‘To count for nothing’: Poverty beyond the statistics, by Ruth Lister (text | video)
2013 The Appeal of Islamic Fundamentalism, by Michael Cook (text | video)
2012 Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy, by Derek Gregory (audio, plus slides)
2011 Language diversity, endangerment, and public awareness, by David Crystal (text | audio)
2010 The Mixed Constitution: Monarchical and Aristocratic Aspects of Modern Democracy, by Mogens Hansen (text | audio)
2009 Surrealism and its Legacies in Latin America, by Dawn Adès (text | audio, plus slides)
2008 A Genealogy of the Modern State, by Quentin Skinner (text | audio)
2007 The Devil in the Holy Water: Political Libel in Eighteenth-Century France, by Robert Darnton (text)
2006 Kinds of People: Moving Targets, by Ian Hacking (text)
2005 Becoming Human: the Archaeological Challenge, by Colin Renfrew (text | audio)
2004 What Fates Impose: Facing Up to Uncertainty, by Mervyn King (text | audio)
2003 Revenants and Migrants: Hardy, Butler, Woolf and Sebald, by Gillian Beer (text)
2002 The Quest for the Industrial Revolution, by E A Wrigley (text)
2001 The Life of Learning, by Keith Thomas (text)
2000 Other People, by Amartya Sen (text)
1999 On the ‘Origins’ of Science, by G E R Lloyd (text)
1998 Is There Always an Underclass? by W G Runciman (text)
1998 Plagiarism, by Christopher Ricks (text)