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Elizabethan Merchant Ships and Shipbuilding Elizabeth’s galleons and other warships have attracted much attention, but...
The Meaning of Everything: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words...
Darwin, Evolution and God: The Present Debates This lecture sets the scientific and religious context for Darwin’s...
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...
Locally 'Green': Does it Make a Difference? Are local environmental organisations merely groups of white, middle class...