Since 2000 the BSHM has co-organised a prestigious annual lecture with Gresham College, London. Previous BSHM-Gresham College Lecturers include many distinguished historians of mathematics; the full list is given below. The BSHM-Gresham Lecture is traditionally preceded by a reception at which Rhenish wine and macaroons are served, in honour of the refreshments served to the Royal Society on its return to Gresham College in 1673 after the disruption of the Great Fire of London.

Since 2012, the BSHM-Gresham Lecture has been preceded by an afternoon of talks on a wider theme relating to the main lecture.

A list of talks, many with recordings and transcripts, can be found on the Gresham website.

18 October 2023: Deborah Kent (St Andrews) 19th-Century Eclipse Expeditions. [Part of an afternoon of lectures on ‘Astronomy and the Forging of Mathematical Communities’].

19 October 2022: Agathe Keller (CNRS/Université Paris Cité) Let's Decolonise the History of Mathematical proofs! [Part of an afternoon of lectures on ‘Ideas of Proofs in Mathematics’].

20 October 2021: Karine Chemla (CNRS-SPHERE/Université Paris Cité) Histories of Numbers. [Part of an afternoon of lectures on ‘Non Western Mathematics: Numbers in Different Languages and Cultures’].

21 October 2020: D’Maris Coffman (University College London) Reserve currencies in the era of fiat money. [Part of an afternoon of lectures on ‘Maths and Money: from Gold to Bitcoin’].

23 October 2019: Ana Simões (University of Lisbon) A Global History of the Eclipse of 29 May 1919. [Part of an afternoon of lectures on ‘Mathematical Expeditions’].

24 October 2018: David Aubin (Sorbonne Université) Science Leaders under Fire: Stories about Mathematicians Killed in World War I [Part of an afternoon of lectures on 'Mathematics in War and Peace']

25 October 2017: Robin Wilson (Oxford University) Pi and e: the Most Beautiful Theorem in Mathematics [Part of an afternoon of lectures on 'Mathematical constants and their beautiful relationships]

27 October 2016: Jan van Maanen (Utrecht University) Leibniz (1646-1716) and the Curve of Quickest Descent [Part of an afternoon of lectures on 'Curves in Honour of Leibniz's Tercentenary']

29 October 2015: Ursula Martin (University of Oxford) The Scientific Life of Ada Lovelace [Part of an afternoon of lectures on 'Women in Mathematics: the Bicentennary of Ada Lovelace']

30 October 2014: Eileen Magnello (University College London) Karl Pearson's Gresham Lectures on Geometry (1890–1894) [Part of an afternoon of lectures on ‘The History of Statistics’]

31 October 2013: Doron Swade (University of London) A grand narrative of the history of computing [Part of an afternoon of lectures on ‘A History of Computing in Three Parts’]

31 October 2012: Raymond Flood (Oxford University) James Clerk Maxwell [Part of an afternoon of lectures on ‘19th-century Mathematical Physics’]

3 November 2011: Peter Neumann (Oxford University) The memoirs and legacy of Évariste Galois

4 November 2010: Patricia Fara (Cambridge University) Triangular relationships

2 November 2009: Jeremy Gray (Open University) Mathematics, motion and truth: The earth goes round the sun

27 November 2008, Jim Bennett (Museum for the History of Science, Oxford) Mathematics and the Medici: Instruments from late Renaissance Florence and a British connection

15 November 2007: June Barrow-Green (Open University) Planes and pacifism: Activities and attitudes of British mathematicians during WW1

9 November 2006: Martin Campbell-Kelly (University of Warwick) From World Brain to World Wide Web

3 November 2005: Stephen Johnston (Museum for the History of Science, Oxford) History from below: Mathematics, instruments and archaeology

10 February 2005: Allan Chapman (Oxford University) The celestial geometry of John Flamsteed: Mapping the heavens from 17th-century Greenwich

19 January 2004: Adrian Rice (Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, USA) Mathematics in the Metropolis: A survey of Victorian London

24 September 2002: Karen Parshall (University of Virginia, USA) A Jew in Victorian England: The mathematician James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897)

31 October 2001: Jackie Stedall (Oxford University) The incommunicable Doctor Pell

18 October 2000: Robin Wilson (Open University) The Gresham Professors of Geometry