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April 27, 2015 The Address - A Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark the Centenary of the ANZAC Landings
The Dean of Westminster Abbey, The Very Reverend John Hall, delivers the address at A Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark the Centenary of the ANZAC Landings on Saturday 25th April 2015
11 min
April 13, 2015 Stand and Be Counted - Purposefulness
Speaker: Canon Professor Vernon White
Stand and Be Counted offers lectures and symposia for all those concerned with the health of Politics. This lecture is one of a series of 3 lectures, focussing on "Idealism and Compromise in Public Service: When the eye sees further than the hand can reach."
42 min
April 02, 2015 Stand and Be Counted - Morality
Speaker: Canon Professor Vernon White
Stand and Be Counted offers lectures and symposia for all those concerned with the health of Politics. This lecture is one of a series of 3 lectures, focussing on "Idealism and Compromise in Public Service: When the eye sees further than the hand can reach."
48 min
March 18, 2015 Stand and be Counted - Idealism
Speaker: Canon Professor Vernon White
Stand and Be Counted offers lectures and symposia for all those concerned with the health of Politics. This lecture is one of a series of 3 lectures, focussing on "Idealism and Compromise in Public Service: When the eye sees further than the hand can reach."
1 hr 1 min
March 05, 2015 Stand and Be Counted - Doing Policing: Being Police
Recorded on Monday 23rd February at The Lady Chapel, Westminster
Speakers: Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Assistant Comissioner Helen King and selected police officers
The forthcoming General Election falls on the 750th anniversary of the First Parliament which convened in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey, and the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
Has our politics lived up to the expectations of its historic foundations?
Elected and appointed public servants now face an allegedly cynical public.
How do you win an election without selling your soul? What if you want to be idealistic and the world won’t let you?
Stand and Be Counted offers lectures and symposia for all those concerned with the health of politics.
44 min
October 28, 2014 Westminster Dialogue: Good War/Bad War? Moral Reflections on 1914 and Beyond
Speakers: Professor David Reynolds and Professor Sir Hew Strachan
Chair: Mark Easton, BBC Home Editor
Those gathered around the decision-making table in 1914 were only too aware of the moral issues at stake. What can those facing potential conflict today learn from the moral complexities then?
43 min
October 24, 2014 One People Oration 2014 given by the Rt Hon William Hague MP
In a wide-ranging lecture entitled Humanising Hell – our Restless Conscience and the Search for Peace, Mr Hague reflected on the legacy of conflict from World War One to today, and called on Britain to maintain the ideas and ambition needed to prevent future conflict and to improve the condition of humanity.
42 min
October 21, 2014 Sermon given at Sung Eucharist on the feast of the Dedication of Westminster Abbey 2014
The Feast of Dedication of a church is a celebration of the church building as a house of God and place of prayer.
The present Abbey Church was dedicated in 13th October 1269. Since 13th October is the principal feast of St Edward, here at the Abbey we keep the Feast of Dedication on the following Sunday.
12 min
July 09, 2014 Sermon given at a Service to Dedicate a Memorial to Admiral Arthur Phillip
The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster
#AdmiralPhillip
9 min
June 11, 2014 Address given by Sir Nicholas Kenyon CBE at a Service to Celebrate the Life and Work of Sir John Tavener
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales attended a Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Sir John Tavener at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 11th June at 12 noon.
11 min

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