Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...
The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence For centuries, scientists have tried to identify what is special...
Prison and Why We Send People There: Does it Work? Should it? ‘They deserve to be put away’; ‘Appeal the sentence –...
The Reform of Parliament and the Crisis of Political Participation The House of Commons is, as the popularly elected chamber...
How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of...
A New Jerusalem: Reaching for Heaven, 1130-1300 During the thirteenth century Jerusalem surplanted Rome as the inspiration...
Playing Catch-up: Palaces from the Hundred Years' War to the Wars of the Roses What was the difference between the fortress of a great...