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To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear

Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...

Sir Thomas Gresham and The New Learning

The subjects chosen by Sir Thomas Gresham for his Professors...

The Evolution of Music

Musical instruments have been found in the archaeological record from...

The Tudor Port of London: Sugar and Spice and all things nice

This conference presents an overview of the Tudor Port, the...

Fun with Visual Illusions

Visual illusions entertain and astonish us.  How and why they...

Christopher Wren’s Medical Discoveries: the ‘Architect of Human Anatomy’

** Please note that this lecture will contain several mentions...

The Gresham Ship: An Armed Elizabethan Merchantman recovered from the Thames

The talk will summarise the discovery (2003), recovery and research...

Blindness in Children: The Global Perspective

It is not only a personal tragedy to be born...

Sir Thomas Gresham and the New Learning

Sir Thomas Gresham founded his College in 1597 in order...

Medicine in London, 1600 to 1900 - Dr William Harvey and the seventeenth-century medical revolution