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Elizabethan Merchant Ships and Shipbuilding Elizabeth’s galleons and other warships have attracted much attention, but...
Ancient Reading in an Historical Context This lecture will explore the varying ways in which people...
The Universities - Over regulation A century ago, British universities started to receive government funds. ...
A Cosmic Perspective: Four Centuries of Expanding Horizons The 'curious and ingenious' men who met at Gresham College...
Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...
Comets - Visitors from the frozen edge of the Solar System Millions of dirty icebergs orbit around the Sun in a...