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Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times

Shakespeare lived in a period of exciting mathematical innovations –...

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Singing the Laws: Ancient Greek Lawgivers in History and Legend

While Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens are now...

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The Ancient History of Computers and Code

What links an ancient shipwreck to the textile mills of...

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What is Modern Paganism?

What is modern Paganism, and how does it relate to...

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A Mirror in the Sky

The Hubble Space Telescope is the most famous astronomical instrument...

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(Mis)Adventures in Deciphering Fast Radio Bursts

How certain bursts of radio waves turned out not to...

Humans as Prey: the Spectre of the Alpha Predator

European dragons occupied a very specific pyschological relationship with humanity...

The Bloomsbury Group: A Queer History

This lecture will explore the world of the second Bloomsbury...

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Witch-Hunting in European and World History

This lecture confronts the worldwide phenomenon of the persecution of...

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First light: Revealing the Early Universe

The final lecture in the series returns to the theme...

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