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Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891) And the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis
2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, and will see the building of the first major addition to the system he create…
6 years, 4 months ago
1667 and The Royal Society: A Manifesto for the Future
When Thomas Sprat's The History of the Royal-Society of London appeared in 1667, it was less a history than a manifesto for the future, designed…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Maths of Future Computing
This lecture examines the mathematics behind computing, starting with the history of the explosive growth of computer technology, from code breaking …
6 years, 4 months ago
Experimental Gardens from Francis Bacon to Today
Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1627) imagined a utopian island including an experimental garden, where plants could be made "greater much th…
6 years, 4 months ago
Have Women Achieved Professional Equality? 100 years since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act
2019 marks 100 years since the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 when a woman was recognised as a 'person' in law. This groundbreakin…
6 years, 4 months ago
Time Management in the Digital Age
Classic time management frameworks advise us to focus on the important rather than the urgent. But these frameworks seem not to be applicable to the …
6 years, 5 months ago
Faster than Light?
The speed of light has fundamental significance.
This talk will explain how the speed of light was first measured, and how an obscure but brilliant p…
6 years, 5 months ago
Human Traffic: Race and Post-War Migration Policy
THE 2019 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLIN MATTHEW MEMORIAL LECTURE
PART OF OUR BLACK HISTORY MONTH SERIES
In the years after 1945 successive British gove…
6 years, 5 months ago
How to Avert a Climate Catastrophe
After the UN Climate Action Summit in September, our Environment Professor will be talking to three experts about whether we still have a meaningful …
6 years, 5 months ago
Everyone Expects the Spanish Inquisition: The Making of Spain's 'Black Legend'
Spain became a byword for cruelty in much of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whether it was the brutality of American colonisation…
6 years, 5 months ago