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Was Your View Of Scotland Different Depending On Where You Were From?

A question from the lecture 'Did Sir Walter Scott Invent...

Tough Choices: Heritage or Housing?

The one built environment issue on which there is political consensus is an urgent need to build more houses. Housebuilding and heritage can be reconciled, but at the moment far too few local authorities know how to do it.

The Founder of the Feast? Dickens and Christmas

A survey of both the contemporary and later responses to Dickens’s Christmas writings, considering the extent to which he can be seen as the creator of the modern Christmas.

The Curious Case of the Decapitated Frog

A discussion of the nature of consciousness founded in startling 1853 experiments on living, decapitated frogs. The debate brought in the greatest minds of the age and is still with us today.

Shakespeare's Astronomy

Amongst all his astronomical allusions, Shakespeare demonstrates a deep knowledge of the night sky and its movements, including the new Copernican world-view. What can we learn of Elizabethan astronomy and Shakespeare's knowledge of it from the plays?

Seeing Through the Lies: Innovation and the Need for Transparency

Doctors’ careers can be built on publication rates and citations. Medical journals prefer positive results. It is not surprising that scientific fraud occurs, sometimes causing catastrophic damage to innocent patients and others. what can be done?

The Prevention of Cancer

Different cancers offer differing hopes of prevention; from cervical or lung cancer (which are completely or largely preventable), to prostate cancer (for which there is no current strategy). What can be done, and what does the future hold?

Charles Dickens, 'Hard Times' and Hyperbole

Dickens' use of exaggeration is key to his style. But its use has myriad effects from making a character's disposition unmissable, to adding whimsy and humour.

Saving the Twentieth Century

How far can experimental buildings of the 1960s and '70s be altered for new uses? Should there be new rules for a new era of conservation?

A Little Light Relief

Light, particularly sunlight, has always occupied a mystical power and is commonly held to bestow good health upon recipients of its rays. Both the truth and fallacy in this will be demonstrated with science of photo-medicine from a chemist’s point of view.

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