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Ruling Passions: The Architecture of the Cecils
Father and son, William and Robert Cecil, not only dominated politics for much of Elizabeth I and James I reign but dominated architectural fashion. …
5 years, 4 months ago
Connected Nature
The story of the deep, biogeophysical planetary connections and how these are intensifying the effects of climate change and economic development, is…
5 years, 4 months ago
Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites
Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’) is one of the most recognisable and romanticised figures of British history. Born in Rome as a Cathol…
5 years, 4 months ago
John Evelyn: Britain's First Environmentalist
Air pollution, the usefulness of trees, ideas for a green belt are not concerns we associate with the 1600s. But John Evelyn, writer, diarist and gar…
5 years, 4 months ago
Convincing Fiction
How does fiction make itself seem like fact?
Professor John Mullan begins where novels begin: with Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, which showed every n…
5 years, 4 months ago
Cosmic Vision: Attentive Eyes
Well-trained eyes can be remarkably useful for capturing light curves of evolving objects in the cosmos, even contributing to modern research program…
5 years, 4 months ago
Hidden Investment Opportunities
Psychological studies show that humans overweight tangible factors and underweight intangible ones when making decisions.
This talk shows how these b…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Windrush Thinkers and Artists
Caribbean migrants not only came to work in the buses and hospitals. Many - such as the novelists George Lamming and Sam Selvon - came to Britain in …
5 years, 4 months ago
The African Diaspora in Britain
This lecture examines the centuries long presence of the African diaspora as an integral part of Britain's history since Roman times. Unfortunat…
5 years, 4 months ago
Reserve Currencies in the Era of Fiat Money
This event, jointly hosted with the British Society for the History of Mathematics, will focus upon the relationship between mathematics and money, f…
5 years, 4 months ago