Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020) was one of the most distinguished polymaths of modern times. His work ranged over philosophy, music and aesthetics to politics, religion and law. This inaugural series of free public lectures promoted his legacy by inviting eminent public intellectuals to speak on four topics within an overarching theme. The theme for 2021 was ‘Nation and Civilisation’.

Each lecture was held at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford in October 2021.

Jonathan Sumption is a renowned historian and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Four instalments of his critically acclaimed history of the Hundred Years’ War have been published between 1990 and 2015, all by Faber & Faber.

Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham, is a distinguished journalist, the authorised biographer of Margaret Thatcher, and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph.

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Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020) was one of the most distinguished polymaths of modern times. His work ranged over philosophy, music and aesthetics to politics, religion and law. This inaugural series of free public lectures promoted his legacy by inviting eminent public intellectuals to speak on four topics within an overarching theme. The theme for 2021 was ‘Nation and Civilisation’.

Each lecture was held at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford in October 2021.

Marwa Al-Sabouni is a critically acclaimed architect and the author of ‘The Battle for Home: Memoir of a Syrian Architect’ (2016) and ‘Building for Hope: Towards and Architecture of Belonging’ (2021), both published by Thames & Hudson.

Ike Ijeh is a distinguished architect, architecture critic, and the author of 'Designing London'.

Douglas Murray is a bestselling author, journalist and associate editor of The Spectator.

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Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020) was one of the most distinguished polymaths of modern times. His work ranged over philosophy, music and aesthetics to politics, religion and law. This inaugural series of free public lectures promoted his legacy by inviting eminent public intellectuals to speak on four topics within an overarching theme. The theme for 2021 was ‘Nation and Civilisation’.

Each lecture was held at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford in October 2021.

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of many bestselling books and his most recent, ‘Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind,’ was published in 2019 by Little, Brown.

Nigel Biggar CBE is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford.

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Sir Roger Scruton (1944-2020) was one of the most distinguished polymaths of modern times. His work ranged over philosophy, music and aesthetics to politics, religion and law. This inaugural series of free public lectures promoted his legacy by inviting eminent public intellectuals to speak on four topics within an overarching theme. The theme for 2021 was ‘Nation and Civilisation’.

Each lecture was held at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford in October 2021.

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He is the author of many bestselling books and his most recent, ‘Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe,’ was published by Penguin Press on 4 May 2021.

Michael Gove MP is the Conservative MP for Surrey Heath, Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, and Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University.

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