Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes - and longer
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The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a person who is well-known for his well-knownness."
A person who is famous for...
A person who is famous for...